The post-1642 Rembrandt would develop into the "real" Rembrandt, profoundly at one with his inner self and a classic example of a misunderstood genius.
To me the most striking example of an older genius is that of Leoš Janáček, who wrote his greatest works in his seventies, after he fell madly in love with a married woman some thirty-seven youngerounger.
BEETHOVEN may be the classic example of a young creative genius who at once embraced and transformed tradition.
The Sagrada Família schools have set an example of constructive genius and have served as a source of inspiration for many architects, such is their simplicity, strength, originality, functionality and geometric excellence.
Some people — Ronald Perelman, for example — have a genius for spinning piles of cash for themselves out of other people's money.
It said Snoop Dogg emerged as a rapper who lived up to all the advance hype which came from his work on The Chronic, and discussed songs on the record, stating "If 'Murder Was The Case' is a stroke of near genius, then 'Lodi Dodi' is an example of total genius".
It was a remarkable example of distracted genius suddenly remembering the point, and it was a chemistry that she activated countless times, for millions of entranced listeners.
Hippolyte Taine wrote in 1866: "There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal, so incapable of fulfilment, so full of yearning for the infinite, so naturally refined, so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries".
Back in 2007, Harvard Business Review cited Harry Potter as a genius example of a product that matured with its customer base, thereby retaining them and ensuring that they keep buying through young adulthood and beyond.
