Quotes About Madness And Genius

#1. Within obsession lies madness and genius

Andy Merrick

#2. Allan admitted that the difference between madness and genius was subtle, and that he couldn't with certainty say which it was in this case, but that he had his suspicions.

Jonas Jonasson

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Marston Morse

#5. Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

John Hendy

#6. Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

Deb Caletti

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Steven Moffat

#9. There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.

John Barth

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

Denis Diderot

#11. Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Erich Segal

#12. He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

Mike Judge

#13. At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Aberjhani

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

Seneca.

#15. Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

James Rollins

#16. Genius - the pursuit of madness.

Criss Jami

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

Marilyn Monroe

#18. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Aristotle.

#19. 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

#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. No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness

Aristotle.

#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. Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

Salvador Dali

#25. Tamas had heard that every genius was equal parts madness. He

Brian McClellan

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

Leonardo DiCaprio

#27. There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Ben Jonson

#28. The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Pound

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

Steve Jobs

#30. 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

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

Aristotle.

#32. Genius lives only one storey above madness

Arthur Schopenhauer

#33. When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.

Erika Johansen

#34. Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Aristotle.

#35. Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Malcolm Bradbury

#36. 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

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

Brian Spellman

#38. Children inherit their parents' madness.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#39. 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

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

Elise Kova

#41. If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#42. I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#43. 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

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

Seneca.

#45. There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Seneca The Younger

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

James Gleick

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

Seneca The Younger

#48. No serum can change who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness- it all depends on who's telling the story.

Megan Shepherd

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. I have never seen genius without a touch of madness ... and vice versa.

Lance Conrad

#52. 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

#53. Madness in method, that's genius

Frank Herbert

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

Steven Moffat

#55. On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where unquestionably endowed with great talents, and whose genius distinctly appeared through their madness, which, however, had completely gained the upper hand.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

George Sand

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

Michel De Montaigne