Lytton Strachey Quotes

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Jim Cameron is a feisty man and a perfectionist, but also absolutely brilliant.

The most brilliant statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time.

Our country, crowned with the vast and marvelous achievements of its first century, asks for a man worthy of the past and prophetic of her future; asks for a man who has the audacity of genius; asks for a man who is the grandest combination of heart, conscience and brain beneath her flag. Such a man is James G. Blaine.

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.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant.

They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.

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

I think Milly Shapiro is a genius. She's just a fantastic person and a fantastic actress.

Tina Fey is my hero. Some of the most brilliant people don't come off as brilliant.

Madness in method, that's genius

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.