Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.