When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
I want people to think I'm a creative genius.
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
Tracey Cunningham is my colorist, and she is genius! We match my color from when I was a kid.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.
Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing these huge DNA databases that are unimaginably valuable. Get people to pay you to add their DNA to this database. Genius!
David Fincher is a genius.
I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.