Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
It takes madness to find out madness.
Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.