Cindy Sherman Quotes

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.