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Benjamin Haydon

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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


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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.


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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


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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


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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.


— Benjamin Haydon


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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.


— Benjamin Haydon


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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.


— Benjamin Haydon


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Before his death he had completed the story of his life up to the year 1820. On returning to England he produced Christ's Entry into Jerusalem which was later to formed the nucleus of the American Gallery of Painting erected by his cousin John Haviland of Philadelphia. Haydon's Lectures publiBenjamin Haydond shortly after their delivery showed that he was as bold a writer as painter.

He committed suicide in 1846. He gave lectures on art and kept extensive diaries which were publiBenjamin Haydond after his death.

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