Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

"In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."

Though old the thought and oft expressed.
'Tis his at last who says it best.