Quotes About Genius

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.

Talent is talent.

When you're talented, you're talented.

My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl.

I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

I think Berry Gordy is a genius, I really do, and it's not a word I throw around lightly. But with all that comes the idiosyncratic behavior of a self-made, talented, creative person, and that's not easy to come up against.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

In 1980s, I discovered 'Late Night with David Letterman.' It was on one of the 13 cable TV channels. They didn't have 25 late night talk show hosts trying to be the most outrageous. There was the likeable television genius Johnny Carson and his mad-genius counterpart Dave. There was nothing else crazy on TV every night, and there was no Internet.

The way to create something great is to create something simple.

There is such a powerful eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment itself, to carry the message, to say what needs to be said. Words are less important, less effective than feeling. When you can sit in perfect silence with someone, you truly know how to communicate.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

What was infinitely more valuable to Wagner, and what excited his gratitude to even more superlative utterance, was the confidence which Liszt showed in his genius, and without which, it is no exaggeration to say, Wagner's greatest works would probably have remained unwritten.

It's not my fault so much as my genius,