Oscar Levant 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.

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

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

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

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

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

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

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

People think I'm nuts.

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