Genius Quotes - Page 12

• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

  William Blake

  Age, Equal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.649, Univ of California Press

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• The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Knowing

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• The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Heart, Design, Attention

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1850). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy”, p.15

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• Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

  George Farquhar

  Player, Wicked, Firsts

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• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

  Joseph Priestley

  Fire, Color, Should

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• Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Shadow, Resistance, Sun

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.21, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Different, Study

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

  Egon Friedell

  Reality, Hands, Invisible

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.229, Transaction Publishers

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• Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

  Samuel Smiles

  Hard Work, Men, Dumb

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.319

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• The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

  George Sand

  Sublime, Storm

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• He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Expression, Soul, Lucky

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.2153, Delphi Classics

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• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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• A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Dull, Danger, Wells

  1965 Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Sparks

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• Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

  Abel Stevens

  Expressive

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

  Samuel Johnson

  Firsts, Diligence, Grew

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.197

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• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  Man Ray

  Art, Mastery, Satisfaction

  Letter to his sister, as quoted in "Man Ray: American Artist" (1988) by Neil Baldwin, May 18, 1941.

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• The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Lamps

  Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.178

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• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

  Bernard Williams

  Fire, Flames, Talent

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• Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Dancing, Magic

  Margot Fonteyn (1979). “The magic of dance”, British Broadcasting Corp.

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• Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

  Charles Churchill

  Enthusiasm

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• Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

  Robert Graves

  Answers, Diagnosis, Situation

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• Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

  Karen Armstrong

  People, Pleasant

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