Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Doors, Mind

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.192

• As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Lying, Character, Genius

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.59

• Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Sunshine, Two, Heaven

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.270

• the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Genius, Use, Talent

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.73

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