“However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.” PeopleNeedsSoulEndsSelfArtistIssuesToo MuchTroubleDrugConnectionsAddictionAlcoholArtisticFragileSensitivityWireRehabFragility Author:Anne Roiphe
“Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.” IfsWritingDoeArtArtistArt IsHelpful Author:Anne Roiphe
“Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindKindLittlesSelfSometimesArtistSocialBounds Author:Anne Roiphe
“I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.” ThinkingGivingKindEnoughArtistFightingSpaceAll KindsUnspokenConformistUnspoken Rules Author:Anne Roiphe
