The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Why It's Time To End The Myth Of Suffering & Creativity
Catherine Anne Davies , February 2nd, 2021 09:54 Catherine Anne Davies reflects on writing a new record in the wake of a string of personal tragedies and health problems, and asks isn't it time we get past the dangerous trope of the tortured artist? When I was 14 I tippexed a quote from Nietzche on my school folder: "One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star". I liked the romantic equation the words suggested: great pain = great art. I was a chaotic teenager. I was unhappy. Shit had happened. I wanted it to mean something, for what I had endured to have happened for ...
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