#genius

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. ↗

— Federico Fellini

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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#genius #inspirational #art

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#insanity #men

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conviction #courage #determination #entail #genius

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers? ↗

— Criss Jami

#attention-span #confidence #genius #gifted #imagination

[On Chopin's Preludes:] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky. ... The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power. ↗

— George Sand

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