Artistic Genius Quotes:

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Insanity And Genius, Misunderstood Genius

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Inspirational, Education, Intelligence, Talent And Genius, Artistic Genius

The best revenge is the massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Pursue Your Dreams, Source Of Life, Innovation Inspiration, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational And Innovation

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

- Ezra Pound

source: Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

topic: Men, Ordinary, Genius, Talent And Genius, Artistic Genius

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Believe, Heart, Men, Conformist, Non Conformist

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Men, Age, Events, Geniality, Artistic Genius

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

- William James

topic: Mean, Creativity, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Making A Living, Software Design

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

- William Winwood Reade

source: William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

topic: Curiosity, Inquiry, Genius, Artistic Genius

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

- James Joyce

topic: Life, Spiritual, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, My Mistakes

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

topic: Teacher, Art, Humanity, Art Of Living, Artistic Genius

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

- Walter Pater

source: Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

topic: Creativity, Exercise, Imagination, Painting And Poetry, Artistic Genius

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

- Charles de Lint

topic: Thinking, Mad, Genius, Artistic Genius, Parcel

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

- Gosta Mittag-Leffler

source: "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. and John de Pillis Rose, 1988.

topic: Dream, Art, Perfect, Mathematics By Mathematicians, Artistic Genius

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

- Christian Wiman

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Artistic Genius

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

- John Philip Sousa

topic: Routine, Genius, Development, Speech Impediment, Facilitate

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

topic: Men, Giving, Touching, Pathos, Artistic Genius

Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.

- Cornel West

topic: Powerful, Book, Class, Joyce, Artistic Genius

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

- Jacques-Louis David

topic: Philosophy, Artist, Should Have, Jacques Rousseau, Artistic Genius