Jenny

“Genius is astute enough to understand its own depravity. Ignorance doesn’t know what depravity is. And stupidity might know what it is, but it’s convinced that it's immune to it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every great phenomenon is followed by degeneration, particularly in the realm of art. The model of the great man stimulates vainer natures to imitate him outwardly or to surpass him; in addition, all great talents have the fateful quality of stifling many weaker forces and needs, and seem to devastate the nature around them. The most fortunate instance in the development of art is when several geniuses reciprocally keep each other in check; in this kind of a struggle, weaker and gentle natures are generally also allowed air and light.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“That was one manifestation of fear, the voice which whispered that he could not be both great and good, that genius was the exact combination of those inexplicable grooves and twists in his mind, that any discipline would curb it to mediocrity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Genius simplifies things”
― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods