Quotes About Genius

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.