Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.