It was a stroke of visionary genius to bring it to the American Northeast, where it rains most of the time.

A visionary genius if ever there was one.

Apple said it had "lost a visionary and creative genius and the world has lost an amazing human being.

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," Apple stated in a note on its web site.

Gaudi is considered by many to have been a visionary genius.

"The world has lost a visionary, creative genius, and amazing human being," Cook said on the call.

The critic Lucy Lippard in her Aperture essay calls him a "visionary genius."

In the final analysis, Schoenberg was a visionary musical genius, as would have been clear whatever his method of composition.

An impressive arch-villain, his initial appearance is that of a visionary evil genius, but the comical aspects of the character soon come through.

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius and the world has lost an amazing human being," Apple said upon news of his passing.