Quotes About Genius

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

Ryan Murphy is a genius. In terms of television, very few have been as prolific.

Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?

It's worse in the case of newspapers. Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. p. 201

All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.

That was one manifestation of fear, the voice which whispered that he could not be both great and good, that genius was the exact combination of those inexplicable grooves and twists in his mind, that any discipline would curb it to mediocrity.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

Talent doesn't starve any more. Even art gets enough to eat these days. Artists draw your magazine covers, write your advertisements, hash out rag-time for your theatres. By the great commercializing of printing you've found a harmless, polite occupation for every genius who might have carved his own niche. But beware the artist who's an intellectual also.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

In every case, the nobler the genius, the less noble the fate. A small genius gets fame, a great genius gets obloquy, a greater genius gets despair; a god gets crucifixion.

O génio é a insanidade tornada sã pela diluição no abstracto, como um veneno convertido em remédio mediante mistura.

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20 [56] That is the central error of a literary imagination: the idea that other people are like us and must therefore feel like us. Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.

Bob was fascinating to watch. It was like being a student of Albert Einstein. This guy was really brilliant, and I got to watch and experience it.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago.