Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Thinking you're a genius is death.
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.
Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense - until you start getting recognized and making money. Then you're a genius.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
