the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“An intelligent mind who trust nothing but the intelligence will eventually face problems which intelligence won't solve.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't… — David Prowse Copy Share Image
There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make people laugh. It's been my only ambition, ever since my dad introduced me to the genius of… — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“Alliances are useful in some situations. In others, they are absolutely vital. But they must always be approached with caution. Unity of… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
