Ed Wood Quotes

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

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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

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.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

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

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

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

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

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

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

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

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.