Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.
If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not.
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
. . . Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.
No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.
Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.