Victor Hugo Quotes About Genius
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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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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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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