Genius Quotes
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.
The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.
That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.
My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.
The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.
The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.
It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.
Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.
People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really.
It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.
Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.
