Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

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 is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Could I have chosen my own genius, I should have made myself a great poet.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she's really one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.