Quotes About The Tortured Artist

#1. I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

Drew Barrymore

#2. The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

Lajos Kassak

#3. Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

Mariah Carey

#4. If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.

Leila Sales

#5. When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

Adrianne Lee

#6. I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

Oliver Sacks

#7. Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

Kevin Rowland

#8. Thank God you're poor, Mom.

Mario Puzo

#9. Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

Marian Keyes

#10. One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...

Marthe Bibesco

#11. I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

Mary Lambert

#12. Just like Brad Pitt and what's her name!

Jim Ross

#13. I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

Andrea Gibson

#14. I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.

Daniel Wu

#15. I HAVE TO GET OUT OF BED EVERY DAY TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN.

Mike Leigh

#16. We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

Paul Bloom

#17. Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.

Lawrence Durrell

#18. I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Jeff Tweedy

#19. I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

Paul Rust

#20. Okay, maybe it didn't get that close and it didn't move that much, but it still came toward me, and if you've been chased by an alligator at any distance or speed, I don't think people should get all 'But how far was it? And how fast was it going?

Maureen Johnson

#21. In art, the Trinity is expressed in the Creative Idea, the Creative Energy, and the Creative Power - the first imagining of the work, then the making incarnate of the work, and third the meaning of the work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#22. My class is not a three ring circus.

Hetty King

#23. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.

Jeremy McCarter

#24. What could be said about me ... a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Claude Monet

#25. I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

Noel Gallagher

#26. I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.

Benjamin Carson