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Joshua Reynolds

"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."

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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

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"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."

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"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."

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"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."

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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
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"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
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"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
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"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."
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"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
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"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."
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