Must the artist be tortured?

Clayton J. Hester
2 min readFeb 23, 2022
Photo by Evgeny Nelmin on Unsplash

Does the artist necessarily have to be some sort of troubled genius?

Someone for whom life just can’t go right and whom they’re they’re doomed to an early end because they necessarily have to destroy themselves for their work the tortured artist, this this person who is able to bring us self expression for the sake of their own pain why what’s it for, for its own sake?

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Clayton J. Hester

Country boy. Explorer of the creative process & life, the arts, storytelling, innovation and history of ideas. Omnia in gloriam Dei facite — claytonjhester.com