Free play Quote by Robert Henri

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

— Victor Hugo

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

— Ninette de Valois

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

— William Saroyan

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

— Samuel Butler

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or…

— June Jordan

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

— E. V. Lucas

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

— Aleister Crowley