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
Doing, Nothing, More, Materials
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
- Benjamin Haydon
Serious, Minds, Bias, Fortunately
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
Art, Imperfect, Inasmuch, Perfection
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
- Benjamin Haydon
Nature, Propensity, Surely, Extract
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
Other, Sure, Perfectly, Reached
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
- Benjamin Haydon
England, Artists, Architects, Legitimate
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
- Benjamin Haydon
Men, Better, Longer, Anxious
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