Viktor Korchnoi Quotes

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

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.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

To "go to extremes" is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness.

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

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

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

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

the mad have a grace all their own

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.