Quotes About Genius

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.