A Quote by Alexander Pope
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
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