Edgard Varese Quotes

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.