Artist Quote by Lev Shestov

“What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

— Anonymous

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found…

— Samuel Smiles

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual…

— B. R. Hayden

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up single-handed a…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let "somebody," not yourself, take the responsibility ...…

— Orison Swett Marden