Madness Is Genius Quotes

#1. To be sucked down by this whirling stream is to fall into abysses of madness, more frightful than those of death; to expel the shades of this chaos and compel it to give perfect forms to our thoughts - this is to be a man of genius; it is to create, it is to be victorious over hell! The

Eliphas Levi

#2. The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

Brian Spellman

#3. A person who exchanged his reason for genius has no meaning. God is unfair, but only this unfairness is unacceptable. If you add genius as an advantage to madness as a disadvantage, you will get a maximum of disadvantage.

Tooru Hayama

#4. The line between genius and madness is so very thin.

Elise Kova

#5. My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

Roman Payne

#6. There is no great genius without tincture of madness.

Seneca.

#7. When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?

James Gleick

#8. There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

Seneca The Younger

#9. To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

Alexander Herzen

#10. Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

Paul Russo

#11. There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.

Matteo Renzi

#12. Madness is what genius looks like to a small mind

Steven Moffat

#13. Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair.

George Sand

#14. Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.

Steven Moffat

#16. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

#17. There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.

Seneca.

#18. Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

#19. Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca.

#21. The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Otto Weininger

#22. A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#23. Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

#24. But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Marston Morse

#25. There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#26. Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

Steve Jobs

#27. Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Guy De Maupassant

#28. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness

Aristotle.

#29. Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.

Paul Burch