Genius Quotes - Page 65

Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is Abstract Expressionism," they could go, "Well, he failed miserably," or, "Fantastic, this is a new genius!" But in art history, I don't see any of the artists I like spewing bullshit. I don't see anyone recording it or pronouncing what they were doing.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Eccentricities of genius.

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.