339 quotes found
“Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.”
“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
“There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.”
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.”
“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.”
“To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.”
“Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
“It takes immense genius to represent simply and sincerely what we see in front of us.”
“Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”
“The parting genius is with sighing sent.”
“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”
“In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.”
“We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.”
“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.”
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
