Quote #16
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
- Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
- Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
- God has commanded Time to console the unhappy.
- Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions- repressed.
- God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
- Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if she were a man.
- Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, be…