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"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
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"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
Artist
"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."
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"Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time."
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"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."
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"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
Genius
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
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"Truth is a big concept."
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"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
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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."
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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 without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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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."
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"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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