1,271 Quotes About Genius

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think themselves competent to decide between genius and talent.("The Phantom Model")

We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.

The expression of personality in art had been sought after and appreciated long before anyone had realized that art was based no longer on an objective What but on a subjective How. Long after it had become a self-confession, people still continued to talk about the objective truth in art, although it was precisely the self-expressionism in art which enabled it to win through to general recognition.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Fools read fast. Geniuses reread.

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things

In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die