Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell

Genius is never understood in its own time.
Bill Watterson

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
Bell Hooks

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen

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

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore

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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott