Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

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

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

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

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

Eccentricities of genius.

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.

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.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I've never met anyone normal.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

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

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

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

Where's your will to be weird?