Michel Foucault Quotes

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

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

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

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.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

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

I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method to the madness. With Gym Class, it's more of a democratic process, and when I'm working on solo stuff, it's just me, either working with producers or sitting in a room by myself. They balance and complement each other.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

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

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

All artists are crazy.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

All good art is an indiscretion.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.

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