Quotes About Genius

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

She was a genius, my mother.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

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

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.