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"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."
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"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
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"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."
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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
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"Truth is a big concept."
Truth
"When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store."
War
"My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project."
Love
"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."
Act
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
Music
"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
Genius
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
Invention
"Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved."
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"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love."
Love
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