Artistic Brilliance Quotes

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

There's something exceptional about watching a video and simultaneously thinking 'That was genius!' and 'I could have done that!'

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Genius appeals to the future.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

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

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

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

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.