Quotes About Genius

Now, conceding that Prosper was at least 40 percent full of the stuff that makes roses grow, that still left quite a lot of sheer unparalleled genius.

Great wits are near to madness, closely allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

It needed the genius of the Tang dynasty to emancipate Tea from its crude state and lead to its final idealization.

Genius has to work hard too. Our conception of the privileges of genius is a false one.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I would just be lying to you and to myself.

One can live the whole of his life within it. It is way to accessing the whole of one's genius. It is the way to unending peace. It is the holy grail of human existence.

I invented every shot that has ever been played.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

I am an inventor of music.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company.

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Talent is liquified trouble.

men of genius stand apart and are laws unto themselves; showed him, too, that all qualities—singularity of appearance, wit, rudeness even, count doubly in a democracy.

Le génie est un péché contre la masse.

Sam Hellerman is a genius!

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity

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

One of the aspects of the genius of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was that, although a convinced Democrat, he was quite prepared to use talent wherever he found it.

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

Sometimes his genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart. But mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously