God creates by …

God creates by intuition; man creates by inspiration, strengthened by observation. This second creation, which is nothing else but divine action carried out by man, is what is called “genius”.

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

God has not made this marvelous distillery of …

God has not made this marvelous distillery of thought, – the brain of man, – in order to make no use of it.The man of genius has need of no apparatus but his brain; through it his every thought must pass. Thought ascends, and buds from the brain, as the fruit from the root. Thought is the resultant of man; the root plunges into the earth, the brain into God, – that is to say, into the Infinite.

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo