Quotes About Genius

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

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.

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.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

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.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.