Victor Hugo Quotes

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

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

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.