Creative Madness Quotes

I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

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

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

We of the craft are all crazy.

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there.

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.