Must the artist be tortured?
2 min readFeb 23, 2022
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?