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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

bell hooks

Art

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Genius

Simplicity

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Genius

Attention

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heinrich Heine

Genius

Fiction

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

William Hazlitt

Genius

Variety

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

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.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius

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