Art Quote by Hermann Hesse

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

— Anonymous

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring…

— Plato

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

— Eckhart Tolle

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of…

— Michel Foucault

In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without…

— Carol O'Connell

“A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

— Rik Mayall

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to…

— Don DeLillo

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now

— L. Ron Hubbard

Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen…

— Clare Boylan

“If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.”

— Bryant McGill