Benjamin Haydon Quotes

"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
(Related: Genius, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Men, Waiting, World)

"The only legitimate artists in England are the architects."
- Benjamin Haydon
(Related: Artists, England)

"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."
- Benjamin Haydon
(Related: Nature, Evil, Human nature)

"When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for."
- Benjamin Haydon
(Related: Man)

"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
(Related: Art, Perfection, Reality)