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Type: Artist Quotes Category: British Artist Quotes Date of Birth: January 26, 1786 Date of Death: June 22, 1846 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Benjamin Haydon Related Authors: Andy Goldsworthy Howard Hodgkin Lucian Freud Ben Nicholson Robert Welch Damien Hirst Gerald Scarfe David Lloyd |
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 Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. Benjamin Haydon 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 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 The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. Benjamin Haydon There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Benjamin Haydon When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. Benjamin Haydon |
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