I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. — Eugene Delacroix. French painter (1798–1863) Body
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.