John Dryden Quotes

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Talent works, genius creates.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

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

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

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

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

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

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.