top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Genius quotes
"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."
"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."
"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
Explore more quotes by Ezra Pound
"Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
bottom of page