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Benjamin Haydon was an English painter known for his historical and portrait paintings. Born on January 26, 1786, and died on June 22, 1846, Haydon's works are celebrated for their fine detail and expressive emotion.

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Famous Benjamin Haydon Quotes

“How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!”

Men Believe Doe Difficult

Book:Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

“Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.”

Men Facts Alive Genius Ordinary Nerves Superstitious Ordinary Man

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.”

Ifs Men Life Is Chance Advantage Certainty Doing Right

Book:Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

“No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.”

Men Evil Results Virtue Successful Advantage Sake Committed Pursuit Commit Wicked Virtuous Heroism

Author:Benjamin Haydon

“Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not only make you a better sailor, but a superior man. Professional studies are not to be neglected; but, on the other hand, take care how you fall into the common error of believing they are the remedy for all the ills of life.”

Men Believe Feelings Hands Care Fall Energy Religious Common Study Depends Errors Take Care Profession Superiors Remedy Neglected Sailor Superior Man

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.”

Ifs Men May Seems Enjoy Views Enjoyment Virtuous Procrastination Inherent Idle Vicious Morrow Procrastinating Industrious

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“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.”

Men Looks May Feelings Pain Certain Enjoy Subjects He Man Painting Taste Evidence Terror Terrorism Impassioned

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

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

Men Wells Done Quality Get Better Anxious

Book:Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

“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.”

Men World Giving Certain Worst This World He Man Husband Convinced Quarrels

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“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.”

People Men Facts Fighting Found Imagination Existence Painting Judging Battle Deeds Brilliant Explanation Heroism Portraits Distinguished Relish Propensity

Author:Benjamin Haydon

About the Author

Born: January 26, 1786
Died: June 22, 1846
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 37

Books & Sources

Correspondence and Table-talk: With a MemoirRelated source material

Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talkRelated source material

Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painterRelated source material

Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter: From His Autobiography and JounalsRelated source material

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