On genius

"... as the crucial thing about aesthetic taste, namely the playful

facility of one's mental powers, the expansion of vitality which

comes from the harmony between imagination and understanding, and



invites one to linger before the beautiful. Genius is a

manifestation of this vivifying spirit for, as opposed to the

pedant's rigid adherence to rules, genius shows the free sweep of

invention and thus an originality which creates new models."

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Comment: just found myself too much a pedant..

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