Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
louis antoine de saint-justThe craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art... Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity – I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.
BanksyWho in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman MelvilleOur neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
vanna bontaThe captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.
hal clementLook, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
bradley dentonThe alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
ralph waldo emersonI doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
cesare lombrosoThe elements are now reversed. It is no longer the end of time and of the world which will show retrospectively that men were mad not to have been prepared for them; it is the tide of madness, its secret invasion, that shows that the world is near its final catastrophe; it is man’s insanity that invokes and makes necessary the world’s end.
In an individual one would regard it as evidence of insanity to see someone repeatedly undertaking enterprises that resulted in his losing precisely what he claimed he was trying to achieve; it is not less lunatic to do it on the international scale, but if you’ve been catching the news lately you’ll have noticed it’s being done more than ever.
john brunnerLucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity – brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.
lucretiusThe pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
errol morrisTo lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
anaïs ninHe was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger?
anaïs ninSomeday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."
anaïs ninLove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
In women, courage is often mistaken for insanity.
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
ralph waldo emersonIs not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity .
insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
ray bradburyMen’s immediate path from the insanity Track to the Sanity Track is in demanding that both sexes have the freedom to strike a balance between homeplace and workplace. Men must expect their wives to financially support them to be fathers as much as they now financially support their wives to be mothers. Women must have our approval to marry the warrior of love rather than the warrior of money.
warren farrellinsanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
ronald david laing