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Genius is thus marked off from everything that consists in mere talent or skill
by the fact that through it a contradiction is resolved, which is soluble absolutely
and otherwise by nothing else. In all producing, even of the most ordinary and
commonplace sort, an unconscious activity operates along with a conscious
one; but only a producing whose condition was an infinite opposition of the
two activities is an aesthetic producing, and one that is only possible through
genius.
Deduction of a Universal Organ of Philosophy, or:
Essentials of the Philosophy of Art according
to the Principles of Transcendental Idealism.
2. Character of the Art-Product
(Artistic Production, Art and Science)
by F.W.J. Schelling
