Washington Allston Quotes:
Ocupation: Painter
Life: November 5, 1779 - July 9, 1843
Birthday: November 5
Death: July 9
If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!
source: Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169
topic: Truth, Men, World, Whole World
