Allan poe Quote by B.A. Shapiro

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor…

— Tim Dorsey

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.

— Kate Nash

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

— Billy Cannon

Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.

— Mauro Ranallo

When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked…

— Benjamin Clementine

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns…

— Kim Addonizio

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“The more gifted of these individuals became writers or artists. Even though they were able to point to the truth in the literature and…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh’s mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as he chose…

— Vincent van Gogh

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers. They are…

— Jillian Sullivan