Are You Even a Real Artist If You Don’t Suffer?

The invisible prison of the tormented artist

Alessia May
Published in
2 min readJul 6, 2022

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Photo by Pavel Nekoranec on Unsplash

Art is liberating.

But it can also trap you if you fall into the myth that artists need to be tormented to produce great work.

Tormented by what? Well, usually by strong dark emotions. Which leads them to believe that great art is great because of the…

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Alessia May
The Orange Journal

Content Specialist, running on too much caffeine.