Tortured Artists Quotes

• I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

  Paul Rust

  Artist, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

  Kevin Rowland

  Artist, Clothes, Old Clothes

  Liner notes to "Searching For the Young Soul Rebels" album, 1980.

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

  Noel Gallagher

  Fall, Artist, Made

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• You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Smart, Dark

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was enraptured. It was a rare and sweet look for him, reminding me of the tortured artist that lived beneath the sarcasm. I liked that about Adrian—not the tortured part, but the way he could feel so deeply and then transform those emotions into art.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Art, Sarcasm

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.28, Penguin

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• Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

  Marian Keyes

  Music, Artist, Men

  Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK

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• Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

  Mariah Carey

  Attitude, Taken, Artist

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• I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Artist, Dating

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