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Benjamin Haydon
British
Artist
About the author
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Benjamin Haydon,
British
Artist
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Benjamin Haydon,
British
Artist
#Nothing
#Genius
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Benjamin Haydon,
British
Artist
#World
#Men
#Waiting
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Benjamin Haydon,
British
Artist
#Artists
#England
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Benjamin Haydon,
British
Artist
#Evil
#Nature
#Human nature
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Benjamin Haydon,
British
Artist
#Man
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon,
British
Artist
#Art
#Perfection
#Reality