#genius

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

— William Hazlitt

#humanity #like #rusts #use #want

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#because #excel #genius #people #profession

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#believe #freedom #genius #i #i believe

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#i #like #michelangelo #might #painter

Genius: the superhuman in man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#man #superhuman

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

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

— Anthony Hope

#being #best #genius #intelligible #unless

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#genius #mediocrity #republic