Bruce Feirstein Quotes

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

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 every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

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

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

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

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

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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

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

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

I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot.

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

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

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

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's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.