#genius

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#every #frightened #genius #had #head

Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we are not careful we may accept the inevitability of these images. It seems that great men offer us a portion of reality and, because of their greatness, we take it for the whole. ↗

— Peter Redgrove

#genius #men

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#business #few #genius #i #legend

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#degree #genius #humor #people #some

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

Genius is nothing but continued attention. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#continued #genius #nothing

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#ever #genius #hardest #i #mike

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. ↗

— Washington Irving

#among #ascends #away #clouds #disappear

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#adler #anyone #anything #books #find

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#door #genius #hand #help #left