#genius

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ↗

— James Whistler

#because #genius #granted #heaven #hereditary

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#i #into #life #my life #only

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. ↗

— Rick Yune

#dealing #eyebrows #fantasy #genius #had

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #bunch #could #einstein #end

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people. ↗

— Paul Harris

#application #genius #more #nothing #our

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#genius #hits #home #home runs #incredible

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#developed #faculties #faculty #genius #highly