If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Imperfection is beauty , madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely crazy than absolutely boring . — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Jonas Wergeland's first stroke of genius, albeit unbeknownst to himself, was to choose a girl as his best friend. It was Nefertiti… — Jan Kjærstad Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with… — Jean-François de Saint-Lambert Copy Share Image
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I have never met the man who had vision large enough to appreciate my genius," he said simply. "Perhaps it was not… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will spend its whole… — Albert Copy Share Image
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“...you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you… — Emma Darcy Copy Share Image
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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