Approach Quote by Benjamin Haydon

“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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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage…

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The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

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I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

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Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just…

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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

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