Washington Allston Quote

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.


Lectures on Art, and Poems (ed. Scholarly Pub Office Univ of, 1850)


An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in ...

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in ...

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in ...

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in ...