Quotes About Genius

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Pablo Picasso

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

Giorgio Vasari

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson