Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Genius is 'the inspired gift of God.' It is the clearer presence of God Most High in a man. Dim, potential in all men; in this man it has become clear, actual.

Genius, as we tend to talk about it today, is some sort of mysterious and combustible substance that burns brightly and burns out. It's the strange gift of poets and pop stars that allows them to produce one wonderful work in their early twenties and then nothing. It is mysterious. It is there. It is gone.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

Genius...has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble...It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.