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Benjamin Robert Haydon (January 26, 1786 - June 22, 1846) was an English historical painter and writer. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums.

"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, 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."

Haydon, Benjamin on age and aging
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"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."

Haydon, Benjamin on evil
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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. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes."

Haydon, Benjamin on learning
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"The only legitimate artists in England are the architects."

Haydon, Benjamin on architecture
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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."

Haydon, Benjamin on art
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"The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination."

Haydon, Benjamin on portraits
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"When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for."

Haydon, Benjamin on quality
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"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."

Haydon, Benjamin on quarrels
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"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."

Haydon, Benjamin on reputation
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"One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste."

Haydon, Benjamin on taste
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