Top 29 Madness Is Genius Quotes
#1. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
#3. 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
#4. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness
Aristotle.
#5. 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
#6. Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.
Steve Jobs
#8. But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Marston Morse
#9. 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
#10. A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#11. The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger
#12. There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca.
#13. Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Denis Diderot
#15. There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.
Seneca.
#16. Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.
Steven Moffat
#17. Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair.
George Sand
#18. Madness is what genius looks like to a small mind
Steven Moffat
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?
James Gleick
#24. There is no great genius without tincture of madness.
Seneca.
#25. 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
#26. The line between genius and madness is so very thin.
Elise Kova
#27. 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
#28. The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!
Brian Spellman
#29. 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
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