Benjamin Haydon Quotes

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

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• I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Best
  • Politics

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Sacrifice

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

  

  Feist
  • Reality
  • Information

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Engineering

• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • Political
  • Reality

• I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Create

• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Important
  • Art

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Hard

• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Reality
  • Know
  • Talking

• It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Choices

• Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Seems

• Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.

  

  Andy Pettitte
  • Career
  • Make
  • Pitch

• We had 45 lakh cases pending from 2003–2004, to which 65 lakh new cases were added, making it more than one crore pending cases. After our initiatives, there are only 20 lakh pending court cases. Now my target is that by 2010, when Gujarat will complete 50 years, we will make it no-pendency. Cases will be disposed of in the very year they are filed.

  

  Narendra Modi

• It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Honor

• 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
  • Reality