Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
There is no off position on the genius switch.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.