“Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.”
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Gore Vidal 163
American writer 1925–2012Related quotes
“I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.”
"Statement for the Day of My Death"
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Context: The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.
"Of Experiment and of the Genius of Discoveries," p. 37
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)
“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 112.
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie.
François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm.
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On Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1831)
