Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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

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

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

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Genius is the error in the system.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

Genius appeals to the future.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.