Benjamin Haydon Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/benjamin-haydon-quotes/#57994a94

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/benjamin-haydon-quotes/#ef9f8872

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/benjamin-haydon-quotes/#158a358f

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/benjamin-haydon-quotes/#cc783bc1

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
~Benjamin Haydon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/benjamin-haydon-quotes/#c84fae40

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
~Benjamin Haydon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/benjamin-haydon-quotes/#bc1d29b8

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