“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
“Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.”
Rolling Stone Issue No. 213 (May 20, 1976) on Charlie Chaplin
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Margot Asquith (1864–1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit
Quoted in Jack Fishman's My Darling Clementine, the biography of Winston Churchill's wife. (p. 131).
“The talent works, the genius creates.”
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
Attributed to Schumann in: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 112, 1913, p. 811
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Ibid.
Essays and reviews, Snakecharmers in Texas (1988)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
Context: Our English careers to born genius are twofold. There is the silent or unlearned career of the Industrialisms, which are very many among us; and there is the articulate or learned career of the three professions, Medicine, Law (under which we may include Politics), and the Church. Your born genius, therefore, will first have to ask himself, Whether he can hold his tongue or cannot? True, all human talent, especially all deep talent, is a talent to do, and is intrinsically of silent nature; inaudible, like the Sphere Harmonies and Eternal Melodies, of which it is an incarnated fraction.
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) English painter, specialising in portraits
Discourse no. 2; vol. 1, pp. 43-44.
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