Rose Macaulay Quotes

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

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

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

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.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Most geniuses are weird.

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done.

I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing, and just continuing to grow and progress as an artist. People who are saying that about Lil B need to be innovative and not be tools.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met. It's almost as if they get bored in their own brain and they have to come up with this craziness to stay interested in life.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.