"Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more."

Genius, Artists, Connection

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"Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more."

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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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John Dryden, English Poet

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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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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."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate."

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"Look at life with the eyes of a child."

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"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."

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"I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."

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"To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself."

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"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."

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