Helmut Newton Quotes

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

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

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

A truly great artist has many talents.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.