Genius is never understood in its own time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Genius is independent of situation.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.