The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“He said he couldn't understand a world 'shameless and cruel enough to divide its people by color when color is in fact… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“I think many of us live with this nagging sense that we could go deeper. That there is some elusive "next level"… — Kate Kretz Copy Share Image
“But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image