#genius

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mediocrities #paid #ridicule #tribute

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

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#bring #causes #come #first #genius

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#enriches #genius #school #solitude #understanding

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#longer #madness #runs #which

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

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#master #nature #talents

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#arms #does #genius #know #often

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