Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.