Body Quote by Mary MacLane

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience,…

— Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

— Anonymous

True genius without heart is a thing of naught - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together make genius. Love!…

— Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love!…

— Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than…

— Marcel Proust

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

— Hans Hofmann

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If…

— Carl von Clausewitz