When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller, it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development...
Moreover, it suggests that the much-derided antipodean psyche can be an artistic strength, not merely something to be ashamed of.
What's often overlooked in the raucous and ribald yet sentimental comedies of Apatow's invention is that the films he directs and produces, are, in effect, studies in the modern artistic psyche the kind of modern artist whose work intersects with the mass media.
While this helps to explain the demographics of his success, in artistic terms his work has tapped into the modern Turkish psyche at a most profound level.
He probably comes more from the great rift in the psyche of the playwright Clifford Odets — between a yearning for artistic purity and a need for fame and riches — than from anything Odets ever encountered in real life.
Eventually, however, Brian Wilson had a nervous breakdown brought about by his incredible workload – between 1963 and 1965, he wrote and produced nine Beach Boys albums and 16 singles – and he began dosing his already fragile psyche with LSD in the pursuit of ever greater artistic achievement.
Each is a civilizing influence, affecting an aspect of his psyche, whether that had to do with sexual identity, yearning for an authority figure, or artistic instinct.
But if I'm right, then Nic Pizzolatto took a serious -- and brilliant -- artistic gamble in the narrative arc of his screenplay, a wager calculated on a deep dark propensity in the American psyche.
Psyche, a creature so beautiful that she drew the attention of Cupid himself, draws the attention of the narrator, whose artistic imagination causes him to dream of her: "Surely I dream'd to-day, or did I see / The wingèd Psyche with awaken'd eyes" (lines 5 6).
