"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
— Charlie Chaplin
“Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.”
— George Sand
“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.”
— Edgar Degas
“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
— Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”
— Auguste Rodin
“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.”
— Maurits Cornelius Escher
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
— Salvador Dali
“What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.”
— Maurits Cornelius Escher
“Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”
— Salvador Dali
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
— Charlie Chaplin
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
— Charles Dickens
"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
— Fyodor Dosteovsky
"Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once.
What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream."
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
— C.S. Lewis
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."
— Ernest Hemingway
"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
— Emily Bronte
"It is the job that is
never started that
takes longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"Action is eloquence."
— William Shakespeare
"Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning."
— Frederic Chopin
"Genius is eternal patience."
— Michelangelo
"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest."
— Alexandre Dumas
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
— Victor Hugo
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
— Mark Twain
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"A good
picture
is equivalent
to a good
deed."
— Vincent van Gogh
"A well-spent day
brings happy sleep."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Civilization is only
savagery silver-gilt."
— H. Rider Haggard
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not
what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
— Jane Austen
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
— Ludwig van Beethoven
"Is there no way
out of the mind?"
— Sylvia Plath
"Proverbs are all very fine
when there's nothing to
worry you, but when you're
in real trouble, they're
not a bit of help."
— L.M. Montgomery
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"The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept."
— Jack London
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
— Ayn Rand
“Soldier On” is Ludwig von Beethoven, unable to hear the music he dearly loves, inescapably deafening, but indefatigably creating genius music he can only hear within the confines of his tortured mind, working, struggling, and improving, continuously improving. This is “Soldier On.”
Celebrating the Genius, the rare individual that aids in changing the world, by accessing their own destiny, creating their fate, self-actualizing and exploring their significant talents, their innate miraculous abilities. The great thinkers, artists, poets, bards, writers, musicians, actors, comedians, authors, composers, novelists, inventors.
Genius
