As I get older, I find my perspective on genius changing. I've long loathed how “genius” is often used as a lazy catch-all term to explain away all the hard work, sacrifice, perseverance, and technical understanding of great artists throughout history. People use it as a simple one word explanation for everything they don't understand about art and artistic process, satisfied to be absolved of any responsibility to create themselves. Relegating the creation of art to a select

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