Terence Trent D'Arby Quotes

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

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

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

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

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.