Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

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

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

Giving calls for genius.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

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.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

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

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I like being creative.

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?'