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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.