Paul Cezanne Quotes

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

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.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

True understanding is the spur of genius

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

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

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

I do not seek. I find.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.