Art Quote by Christian Wiman

Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well…

— Christian Wiman

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

— Damien Hirst

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my…

— Erwin Chargaff

“Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.”

— Lee Siegel

“It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before…

— Joseph Brodsky

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

— Allan Bloom

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell…

— Stendhal

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country…

— Pauline Kael

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

— Raoul Peck