Benjamin Haydon Quotes

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

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

I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

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

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

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

Uzi is insanely good and super creative.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

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

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

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