The Fallacy of the Suffering Artist

Tags: creativity - suffering - banality of evil

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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.¹

References

• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron