The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and… — Simon T. Bailey Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no,… — Elsa Einstein Copy Share Image
Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a… — David R. Hawkins Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual,… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case.… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Being a genius doesn’t make you smart, happy, or successful. In fact, sometimes the opposite. Studies have shown that people with genius-level… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. I didn’t want to… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
![“[Donald Trump] stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to serve in the military, can they stay? And he said, "You know what? I think that's a good idea."That's brilliant. That's genius.” quote by Eric Bolling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ba/eric-bolling-9033_asked_donald-trump-stood-up-and-was-asked-a-ve_591976.jpg)
![“[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.” quote by Elsa Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/elsa-einstein-107620_behave_on-einstein-you-cannot-analyze-him-other_607537.jpg)
