Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

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.

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

So all my best is dressing old words new.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Let's have some new cliches.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Most geniuses are weird.

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

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?