“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
From his book House of Satan
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“Our own great movement will grow with its own impetus wherever it is not blighted.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Source: The Flame is Green (1971), Ch. 9 : Oh, The Steep Roofs of Paris
Context: Listen now to a series of sayings that always come hard to brave people. Our own great movement will grow with its own impetus wherever it is not blighted. We will break up persons of blight and centers of blight. But often, and this will be the hard part for all of you to understand, we will warn and advise before we kill. And quite often we will not kill at all. Try to understand this.
