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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

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

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

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.