Tortured Artist Quotes

Quotes tagged as "tortured-artist" Showing 1-5 of 5
Kay Redfield Jamison
“That such a final, tragic, and awful thing is suicide can exist in the midst of remarkable beauty is one of the vastly contradictory and paradoxical aspects of life and art.”
Kay Redfield Jamison, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Iris Murdoch
“You're such an agonizer, Bradley. You romanticize art. You're a masochist about it, you want to suffer, you want to feel that your inability to create is continuously significant.”
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Frances Livings
“Pain and passion synchronized
comprising unborn, old and wise
Songs of the soul
oh, in torment they are born”
Frances Livings, During the Hours

Iris Murdoch
“In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal. For this ordeal I had waited in vain. Even total war (I was never in uniform) failed to ruffle my life. I seemed doomed to quietness.”
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Bobby Hall
“You have pretty eyes, Flynn. You look like a tortured artist, she said. Uhmm, thank you? I said.”
Bobby Hall, Supermarket