Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Arthur Rimbaud

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Stendhal

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm

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.
Max Beerbohm

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor Stravinsky

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Antonio Tabucchi

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Italo Calvino

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael