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Benjamin Haydon [1786-1846] British
Rank: 106
Artist, Painter


Benjamin Robert Haydon was an English painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits.

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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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.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. Men
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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.
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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.
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