Genius Quotes
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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.
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When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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Let a man of genius make use of photography as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
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I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.
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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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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.
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The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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Patience is eternal genius.
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Genius has no brother.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.
