The next time you are in a great art museum, it will be good to have Stephen Spender’s words on genius in mind:
But although the Mozartian type of genius is the more brilliant and dazzling, genius, unlike virtuosity, is judged by greatness of results, not by brilliance of performance. The result must be the fullest development in a created aesthetic form of an original movement of insight, and it does not matter whether genius devotes a lifetime to producing a small result if that result be immortal.
(Quoted from page 115 of The Creative Process, edited by Brewster Ghiselin. A Mentor Book from New American Library, 1952.)
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