Quotes About Genius

Mozart is sunshine.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes it.

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is, "Don't grumble. Plug on!"

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

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

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.

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

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius, which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

Taste is the feminine of genius.