Genius Quotes
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
