1,271 Quotes About Genius

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

Kaito was busy scribbling all these thoughts before they slipped out of his head and into the void. A writer’s brain was a fickle thing—it would lose genius faster than it created it.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

I think I've done the best I can do at the time and been as honest with myself as I can be and I can sleep good at night knowing that. - interview w/ MTV 2005