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..