Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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

When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

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

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

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

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

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

Poets are born, not paid.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

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

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

David Milch is one of the smartest human beings I've ever met. I'm relatively bright and relatively well-read. I'm not in a league with that guy.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.