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

Passion Conflicting Emotions Tortured Soul Tortured Artist

Book:During the Hours

Source: During the Hours

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

Logic Stereotype Tortured Artist

Book:Supermarket

Source: Supermarket

“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.”

Obsession Dull Writer Creative Process Iris Murdoch Irrational The Black Prince Ordeal Tortured Artist

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“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.”

Art Iris Murdoch Create The Black Prince Agonizing Character Description Masochist Romanticize Tortured Artist

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“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.”

Art Suicide Bipolar Disorder Sylvia Plath Manic Depression Suicidality Tormented Mind Tortured Artist

Book:Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Source: Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament