Quotes on Artistic Genius

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

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.