“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
Kathleen Winsor (1919–2003) American author
“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
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Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz (1956).
Context: Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people recognize no other kind. There are other forms of genius, of course, and though they create their own problems, they are not "impossible" people. But O, how deeply we should thank God for these impossible people like Berlioz and Dylan Thomas! What a weary, grey, well-ordered, polite, unendurable hell this would be without them!
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December 21, 1762
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
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Margaret Atwood book The Robber Bride
Source: The Robber Bride
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
Hopper quoted this from Ralph Waldo Emerson's book Self Reliance, the book he loved throughout his life
1941 - 1967
Source: 'How Edward Hopper Saw the Light', by Joseph Phelan, at Artcyclopedia online