Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

No one can arrive from being talented alone work transforms talent into genius.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Genius is present in every age but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men especially the most prominent one of the community the master's master the genius of the age.