
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.”
The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.”
The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine (December 1970)
“I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!”
BKV on War of the Worlds http://www.bkv.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3002
cited in Marco Travaglio, Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo.
2000s - 2010s
"The Modern Drama" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858).
Quote, early January 1986, in: 'El País, Dalí vuelve a casa', 17 July 1986: as cited on Wikipedia: Salvador Dali
Dali was returned to the Teatro-Museo and on his return he made his last public appearance. He was taken in a wheelchair to a room where press and TV were waiting and made this brief public statement
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1981 - 1989
John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine (December 1970)
Context: When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.