In retrospect, I am astounded I could let go of the drama of being a suffering artist.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
We can charge so many things off to our suffering-artist identity: drunkenness, promiscuity, fiscal problems, a certain ruthlessness and self-destructiveness in matters of the heart.
We all know how broke-crazy-promiscuous-unreliable artists are.
And if they don't have to be, THEN WHAT'S MY EXCUSE?
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
