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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

~Gavin Hood

Topics: About Actor Background Best Close Genius Gravity Ground Middle Middle Ground Works You

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Einstein was very attracted to Mozart. There's a mathematical, classical structure to the music, and I think he identified with that very strongly. I think there also is a connection between being a genius and a polymath.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Also Attracted Being Between Classical Connection Einstein Genius He Identified Mathematical Mozart Music Strongly Structure Think Very I Think

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Topics: Bright Closer Everyone Genius Geniuses Ideas Least Once Once A Year Real Simply Together Year

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Topics: Advantage Consists Craft Employing Genius Gift Large Large Part Life Own Part

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Topics: Before Century Certain Decade Desires Done Even Genius Itself Much People Perceiving Possess Talent Who

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When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

~George Clooney

Topics: Believe Danger Everyone Genius Good How Inhale People Tell Understand Which Will Win You Young

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Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: After Art Been Before Double Energy Face Gained Genius Germ Growth Hand Looks Makes Mind Other Romance Romanticism Tradition

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The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Actor Another Arrived Art Critic Does Done Embodies Genius Having He His Know Mind Only Person Realize Remove Stage Task Thus Understand Unlike Work

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Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Art Brightest Bums Clarity Genius Great Preserving Proportion Race Revealing Significant Soul Vision Which Works

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A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Bonds Distinguishes Expression Genius His Independent Language Marvellous Often Over Phrases Power Seems Shakespeare

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