Bob Colacello Quotes

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot.

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

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

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

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

I never said I was a genius.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.