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

Genius, Heaven

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

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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."

Garry Marshall, American Actor

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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

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"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

Claude Adrien Helvetius, French Philosopher

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"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

Jonathan Brandis, American Actor

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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Work alone will efface the footsteps of work."

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"The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell."

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"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible."

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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."

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"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait."

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"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."

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