Appreciation Quote by Eric Weiner

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

— Robert Schumann

“People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the age of three and composed his first…

— Charles Martin

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

— Maurice Baring

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More…

— Charles Hazlewood

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which…

— Robert Musil

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

— Richard Wagner

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

— Stephen Hough

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

— Anthony Hopkins

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species…

— Fred Hoyle

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