It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

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.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.