The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy. — Albert M. Greenfield Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now,… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I'd want to meet Lil Wayne. He's a very smart man, intelligent guy and a lyrical genius. So I'd want to see… — Patrick Chung Copy Share Image
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary. — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all. — Joe Zee Copy Share Image
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image