Unappreciated Brilliance Quotes

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn't famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it to such a degree that the waitress from Nebraska working at the Cheesecake Factory has passed them all by.

The best live among us in disguise.

'Raging Bull' was badly received at first. It took 10 years for it to be recognised.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.

'Lootera,' though not commercially successful, was a beautiful film.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even opened it, treat it with a 'been there, done that' attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I'd missed.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into potted categories but also because they avoided the self-promotional efforts of their peers.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.