…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.
Genius sees the answer before the question.
Genius speaks only to genius.
Boldness is a crucial element of genius.
Out of necessity comes genius.
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.
Passion is like genius: a miracle.
Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
I built a global brand Mugler, and we did things that inspired so many people. I'm proud to have helped some amazing people express themselves in new ways. What I appreciate most in the world is to have met and befriended incredible geniuses, like David Bowie and Cyd Charisse and Celia Cruz, who was the goddess of salsa. I saw people kneeling on the streets for her. Which they did for me in Japan. That was really embarrassing.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.