Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Talent works, genius creates.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

Giving calls for genius.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

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

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

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.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

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

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.