Genius Quotes

I'll be so quiet for you. Look like a child for you. Be like a shadow of a shadow Of a shadow for you.

Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

It takes immense genius to represent simply and sincerely what we see in front of us.

The parting genius is with sighing sent.

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can't count above fourteen.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Genius is only great patience.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.

Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.

Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength, ' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.