Quotes About Genius

Gods have bestowed our genius on us; They will also find its use some day.

Now Logan competed against Troy by not competing, which was fucking genius. You couldn't win if only one of you was playing.

Maybe this doctor was one of those brilliant people who are hopeless with normal stuff like dates.

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

Hemingway signed the contract, and got up from the couch. Then he said, "Never ran as no genius, but I'll defend the title again against all the good young new ones.

Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?

All the people she was missing, the tribes she would never know and words she would never hear, the worry that they might right now be passing the one people she was meant to study, a people whose genius she would unlock, and who would unlock hers, a people who had a way of life that made sense to her.

I have never understood why a person who is not a genius bothers with art. What's the point? You'll never have the satisfaction of having created something indispensable.

Everyone becomes a genius when they die young.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

A ver si te entiendo. Dices que no crees su relato porque es demasiado creíble. —En efecto —asentí tranquilamente—, Kevin puede ser un chico intrigante y malicioso, pero su profesora de lengua está en lo cierto: es agudo como un estilete. —¿Te pareció que se moría de ganas de salir a declarar? —¡Claro que no! Es un genio.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

She's very bright. Really very bright. I wouldn't be surprised if she was Mensa level.

Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius.

My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

To me, James Harden is like basketball's Picasso - he's an artist whose work you respect, even if you don't always understand its significance until later. (Or maybe Van Gogh or some other artist - I'm not an art history buff, but you get my point).

Van Gogh was impulsive.

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.