For he does not think of wanting to resist God and his commandments as a possibility that should worry him . Consider thunderclouds, volcanoes. Compared to the might of these, our ability to resist becomes an insignificant trifle. Yet the sight of them becomes all the more attractive, the more fearful it is, provided we are in a safe place. Fine art is the art of genius.
Genius is a talent for producing something for which no determinate rule can be given.
Its foremost property is originality . Since nonsense too can be original the products of genius must be models, that is, exemplary . Genius cannot indicate scientifically how it brings about its products . Thus if an author owes a product to his genius, he himself does not know how he came by the ideas for it, nor is it in his power to devise such products at his pleasure. Nature through genius prescribes the rule not to science but to art.