Creative Brilliance Quotes

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

The glory of a next Augustan age A golden age of poetry and power Of which this noonday’s the beginning hour.

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

It's not my fault so much as my genius.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

Just two words: a masterpiece.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.