Genius Quotes

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skil...

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a ...

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

The path of genius is free, and its own

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius onl...

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so muc...

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius....

Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot ...

It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments o...

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender a...

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my...

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or th...

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the re...

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible...

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great...

I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it t...

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to recei...

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might ...

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand al...

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of ...

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intell...

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to ge...

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perh...

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Genius lives only one storey above madness

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than h...

The unrecognized genius—that’s an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one—the genius re...

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius r...

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds...

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the be...

Genius is never understood in its own time.

I'm a misunderstood genius.""What's misunderstood?""Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...

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

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

The Genius Of The Crowdthere is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman bein...

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing i...

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish id...

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be ha...

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not t...

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No...

Mr Brocklehurst: Do you know where the wicked go after death?Jane Eyre: They go to hell, was my read...

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. The...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

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

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than t...

You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amo...

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen ge...

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of cal...

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudde...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a l...

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying th...

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

this was business.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition a...

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the ...

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he ...

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied ...

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.