Kapil Dev Quotes

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

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

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

People think I'm nuts.

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

There are some artists that may actually be crazy, but there are some artists that just make different choices, and because they are different, we call them crazy.

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

I've been called crazy many times before.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.