#genius

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#genius #most #pinions #real #simplicity

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#all things #art #attention #create #creative

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ↗

— Anthony Hope

#being #best #genius #intelligible #unless

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. ↗

— Horace

#general #genius #his #host #like

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#handicapped #limitations #may #stupidity #thus

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#does #genius #his #ideas #know

Taste is the common sense of genius. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#common sense #genius #sense #taste

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#carry #child #enthusiasm #genius #into