Auguste Rodin Quotes

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

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.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Talent works, genius creates.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Imagination decides everything.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

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

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.