Genius Quotes
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
Wendy Wasserstein
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One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
Ernst Gombrich
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
Egon Friedell
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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.
Nina Arianda
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson
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The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.
John Ruskin
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I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.
Eric Weiner
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The wardrobe guy of Blow was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful.
Johnny Depp
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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
William Cullen Bryant
