Art Quote by Marielle Heller

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out…

— Mary Karr

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

— Josh Ritter

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

— Noel Gallagher

“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with…

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

— Jeff Tweedy

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really…

— George Clooney

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was…

— Tariq Ramadan

I'm tortured because I care. I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.

— Shawn Mendes

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

— Patty Griffin

And you know, I've done a lot of research and I've been working on projects that embrace people who are tortured, or exploring what…

— Kari Skogland

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out…

— Tim Burton

I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I…

— Denzel Washington