Genius Quotes - Page 63

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it and where it would be performed. So you can't really separate the creation of genius from the appreciation of it.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

A good title is a work of a genius!

Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams.

Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.