E. B. White Quotes

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

Most geniuses are weird.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

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

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

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

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.