Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

Most geniuses are weird.

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

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

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

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

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

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules.

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

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.