Genius Quotes - Page 36

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When you think about the fact that the instrument has changed significantly since he wrote for it and his music still really works, it's brilliant. He was definitely ahead of his time. There's something so satisfying about his music. It's beautifully organized and emotional at the same time. I find it highly exciting.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.