“Genius”

Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “In Skylar’s view, genius, like everything truly fine in life, never stood the vassal to or subject of intellect. Critics, art historians, and other artists could argue themselves hoarse in support or opposition of a work such as the Birth of Venus, but using logic to evaluate art was like measuring sunrise with a yardstick. What a mother felt on seeing her firstborn child, what a poet imagined on watching the sun rise from the still, dawn-sea, what a lover cherished as his beloved ran into his arms: the unifying consciousness that made these moments sublime and quickening could never be rendered into words and concepts. Logical thinking proceeded on the surface of the mind; transformational experiences grew out of calmer, deeper waters far below that surface.”