Word: genius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...architects that we can hope to acquire this subtle capacity which is one of the fundamental requirements of the beginner. Inspiration in composition is only to be obtained by the hardest kind of work, and it will come much oftener to the steady persevering worker than to the brilliant genius who waits...
...Christian. It is the unrestrained outpouring of the soul towards the Father of all. The highest civilization which the world knows is one which depends on prayer and which builds edifices for purposes of prayer. In such a civilization there is the most prayer, for the men of genius, unsatisfied by communion with human beings, reach out toward God, that they may be inspired by His lofty spirit...
...simplicity of style and filled their paintings with unnecessary detail, but there came one among them who returned to the early principles; this man was Fra Angelico. Though Giotto and Fra Angelico succeeded in their style, still naive "leaving out" and scientific elimination must be united with their genius, to constitute real decorative...
...relations between Genius and Insanity in the light of Recent Discussion...
...peculiar note of Wordsworth's genius at its highest that of sublimity in tenderness...