The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Quote by Stendhal

Topics: Genius Quotes

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for...

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion

One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.