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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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts.Benjamin Haydon
The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
Benjamin Haydon
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Benjamin Haydon
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Benjamin Haydon
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.
Benjamin Haydon
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Benjamin Haydon
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