Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.