Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one&#039;s training. — Bernard Berenson

Before I was a genius I was a drudge. — Ignace Jan Paderewski

Genius develops in quiet places  character out in the full current of human life. — Goethe

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent. — Murray D. Edwards

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. — Oscar Wilde

Talent is that which is in a man&#039;s power  genius is that in whose power a man is. — James Russell Lowell

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. — Oscar Levant

Improvement makes straight roads  but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. — William Blake