Folly Quote by Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

— Alexander Pope

Taste is the common sense of genius.

— Victor Hugo

Genius and taste don't go together.

— Helmut Newton

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Taste is the next gift to genius.

— James Russell Lowell

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more,…

— Bill Vaughan

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

— Madame de Stael

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone…

— Anonymous

Taste is the feminine of genius.

— Anonymous

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

— Eugene Delacroix

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael