7 quotes
“Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.”
"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."
— William Blake
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
— W. H. Auden
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
— Vladimir Nabokov
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
— Douglas Adams
"One is not born a genius one becomes a genius."
— Simone de Beauvoir
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success"
— Ian Fleming