A Quote by Hunter S. Thompson
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!
I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.
I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.
I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.
The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.
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