Quotes About Genius

The proverbial 'mad mathematician' was more fact than fancy.

I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney.

A massificação procura baixar a qualidade artística para a altura do gosto médio. Em arte, o gosto médio é mais prejudicial do que o mau gosto... Nunca vi um gênio com gosto médio.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

when you finish this chapter, go listen to his Saint Matthew Passion or Mass in B Minor, the piece I am listening to as I write these words. You will understand why some call him the "Fifth Evangelist.

There is a big scholarly literature on the high correlation between creative genius and mental suffering, which Sigmund Freud termed "the problem of the creative artist."[12]

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

No, I will never do another Rainbow album. I'll never ever do that again. I want no part in doing it; I want no part in doing anything with Ritchie at all. I respect him. He's a genius. He was a great part of my life, but I don't need to go through that hell.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.

I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

Donna Tartt is a genius.