Sentence examples for artistic suicide from inspiring English sources

And, "If I must commit artistic suicide, I must live by it".

For him, paying heed to prevailing views of how stories should be told would be "artistic suicide.

Artistic suicide is an old but enduring game, especially for performers who have manufactured personas that are integral to their work.

He believed he faced two forms of artistic suicide: tailoring his work for "foreign tastes" or writing for non-existent Hungarian readers in a "deaf nothingness".

But after graduating, at 22, he took himself off to Blaenau Ffestiniog, a depressed slate mining village in North Wales — a move that most of his aspiring contemporaries in the late 1960s would have seen as artistic suicide — where he turned an abandoned Methodist chapel into a studio, which has been his base ever since.

"Flipping about and changing casts is almost artistic suicide," Mr. Hall admits, adding that he's curious about audience reaction, especially to the erotically charged male version, which, he says, has been a hard sell in the United States, unlike Europe and Canada.

In her previous book, "Fun Home," Bechdel, creator of the comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," told the story of her father's secret homosexuality, thwarted artistic expression and suicide — and of her own coming out in college.

Bechdel's previous book, "Fun Home," told the story of her father's secret homosexuality, thwarted artistic expression and ultimate suicide, and of her own coming out in college.

Like most declarations of artistic freedom, it was commercial suicide.

Traditionally, the surest route to loss of artistic confidence, insanity and even suicide for a hopeful young writer was to burden herself with a fellow scribbler.

Interestingly, there are also many vivid artistic representations of the act of suicide which date back at least to the 15th century (32), in which suicide can be depicted in a positive light.