Seneca the Younger Quotes

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

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.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

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

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules.

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

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

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

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

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

Most geniuses are weird.

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

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

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