Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

Talent works, genius creates.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

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

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

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

Since when was genius found respectable?

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Genius is the error in the system.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.