A Quote by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote? Those things you incorporate and create in the character, and then you step back and you create it. It always must begin with the point of truth within yourself.
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.
Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.
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