Quotes About Genius

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

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

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.