This is how geniuses are supposed to work: They are epiphany machines, pulling breakthroughs from thin air. Once the epiphany arrives, the artist immediately recognizes its importance, and rushes the idea into paint or verse or melody….But here’s the thing about conceptual innovators: they tend to get less productive with age, as they exhaust their store of revolutionary ideas….
Jonah Lehrer (via Bobulate)
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