Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. - C. W. Ceram

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
- Joshua Reynolds

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Benjamin Franklin

For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble.
- Kurt Hanks

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.
- Unknown

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace

Never think that God's delays are God's denials.
Hold on; hold fast; hold out.
Patience is genius.
- George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.
- Edmond Duranty