There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.


The Round Table Vol. 1 (ed. 1817)


There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to ...

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to ...

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to ...

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to ...