Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

The greatest genius is the most indebted person. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains (Quote by - Jane Ellice Hopkins)

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)

That would make Lions' president Matt Millen look like a genius. For once in his life. (Quote by - Joey Harrington)

But genius must be born, and never can be taught. (Quote by - John Dryden)

If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius. (Quote by - Davis Love III)

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius (Quote by - Larry Leissner)

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man (Quote by - Charlton Heston)

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise (Quote by - Bernard de Bonnard)

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)

It will work. I am a marketing genius. (Quote by - Paris Hilton)

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. (Quote by - Madeleine Albright)