Quotes of: Creative-genius Keyword

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Eating People is Wrong

From one sublime genius— —more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

Familiar Letters on Chemistry

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

George Edward Woodberry

Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with...

Michael Eric Dyson

There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.

Matteo Renzi

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

Natalie Babbitt

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

Ask the Dust

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

The Horse's Mouth

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

The Kult

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

Roderick Hudson

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

Rendezvous with Rama

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The Spectator

I replaced my wife with an empty chair, so I wouldn’t be poisoned at dinner. And I’m still alive, so I’d say it was a genius tactical strategy.

Sleepwalking is restercise

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

A Study in Scarlet

The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one

And That’s Why I’m Single

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Thief of Time

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

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