Quotes About Genius

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

I like A$AP Rocky, because I think he's really brilliant.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid is a genius - she's obviously some sort of savant!'

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Generally, there's a correlation between good work and good reviews. In the very odd, very rare case that they say it's terrible, but actually you're a genius who is ahead of your time, you are going to just have to suffer.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

Uzi is insanely good and super creative.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

In the work of a writer of genius, we rediscover our own neglected thoughts.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds