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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
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"T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary."
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"Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."
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"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
Art
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Creativity
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
Education
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Power
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
Ability
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
Art
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Education
"All great art is born of the metropolis."
Art
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