Tormented Artist Quotes

#1. I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Dave Matthews

#2. I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

Anne Waldman

#3. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Carl Jung

#4. You have to develop a very thick skin.

Gabrielle Union

#5. Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.

William Monahan

#6. didn't look it. And

Diana Gabaldon

#7. [Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

Raoul Hausmann

#8. Oh...why has time changed us?

Naguib Mahfouz

#9. Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

Wes Nisker

#10. The banker didn't seem convinced - but then, in Wayne's estimation, he didn't seem completely human either. He was at least part dolphin.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. When the striped pole slips by I slide low in the saddle and give Kali room to go. One moment she's bottled up, and the next she's a stream of copper, her chestnut mane smacking me hard in the face while her strides lengthen and everything becomes a droning rumble of hooves and wind.

Mara Dabrishus

#12. When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

Albert Payson Terhune

#13. I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

Travis Kalanick

#14. Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.

Peter Berg

#15. He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

John Ruskin