A Quote by Igor Stravinsky

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Genius Mediocrity Steals

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Igor Stravinsky
Russian - Composer
June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Oscar Wilde

Genius Borrows nobly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

Anthony Quinn

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Pablo Picasso

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Plato

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Talent imitates, genius steals.

T. S. Eliot

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Benjamin Disraeli

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.