Buffon Quote by Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm Download Open image “Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.” — Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buffon Buffon Genius Fashion Genius Genius Buffon Genius Style Inspirational Intelligence Montesquieu Montesquieu Style Style Style Genius
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
“Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of… — Albert Sánchez Piñol Copy Share Image
“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If creative procrastination, selectively applied, prevented Leonardo from finishing a few commissions—of minor importance when one is struggling with the inner workings of the… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm Copy Share Image
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an evolutionary biologist,… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in the 'Protogaea'… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle?… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
