A&O ANECDOTE – EDISON and Jeanne d’Arc’s IMAGINATION

ART & ORGANISM

IMAGINATION

is the source of the creative self: perspiration theory and inspiration theory

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The idea of divine inspiration was contradicted by Edison’s crediting his creativity breakthroughs to the sweat of his brow!

“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration”  (quoted by M. A. Rosanoff in Harper’s Monthly Magazine Sept. 1932, as having been said by Edison  c.1903)