Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

My genius is in my nostrils.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.