Genius lasts longer than beauty
Genius lasts longer than beauty
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
Beauty is a form of geniusis higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, orspringtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Genius is born, not paid.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.
Genius is an infinite capacity for giving pains.
I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art I altered the minds of men and the colour of things there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder.... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Only my own genius.
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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