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Benjamin Haydon

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

— Benjamin Haydon youth

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

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

— Benjamin Haydon mind

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 genius

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 men

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

— Benjamin Haydon art

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

— Benjamin Haydon nature

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

— Benjamin Haydon man

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to

— Benjamin Haydon youth

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