Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius or from love to friendship.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

No I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman now and the man was gone.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted talented wealthy internationally famous genius.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.