Genius Quotes
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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
Frederic Chopin
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
George Gilfillan
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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
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
Eric Van Lustbader
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!” To class she went only once. “I don’t go back,” she said emphatically. “Too foolish book, Dick and Jane.” She shrugged disdainfully. “Not Tolstoi!"
Bel Kaufman
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Eugene Delacroix
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
Eric Weiner
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That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
Washington Allston
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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.
Northrop Frye
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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.
Marcel Proust
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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.
Gary Louris
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
Edwin Percy Whipple
