#genius

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

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#beat #care #day #dinner #drum

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#first #genius #last #love #truth

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

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

— Otto Weininger

#longer #madness #runs #which

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#force #genius #his #human #insignificance

Rules and models destroy genius and art. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#destroy #genius #models #rules

Dandyism is a variety of genius. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#variety

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humanity #like #rusts #use #want