I have absolutely no doubt that anti-depressants can negatively effect creativity. I also don't think that has anything to do with the wanky Romantic tortured artist stereotype.

It's cliched, sentimental. It panders to its audience instead of expressing the artist's vision.

David, you know I am the elitistest elitist that ever elited, but, I'm gonna have to call this opinion crazy, my fren. You thinking a work sucks does not make it any less a work, and doesn't actually say anything about whether the work successfully gets across a point to people other than you.

And even if a work objectively sucks: you haven't explained why suckitude and art are mutually exclusive.

I also don't think that has anything to do with the wanky Romantic tortured artist stereotype.

Again, I don't think we have to limit ourselves to Young Werther. That trope and a long list of damaged creators extends well into the 20th century. As a stereotype it's probably even more potent as a myth in the 20th century than in the 19th. I mean, Blake and Byron weren't particularly depressed and mopey and tortured. Neither was Shelley, nor Keats. Coleridge definitely. Coleridge qualifies.

Please ignore my capitalisation of Romance, Hec. I was more stapling my hand to my forehead that referring to a particular genre.

David, you know I am the elitistest elitist that ever elited, but, I'm gonna have to call this opinion crazy, my fren.

Good lord, that's way more of a consensus opinion than a crazy one. It's not an outlier opinion, that's right down the middle.

You thinking a work sucks does not make it any less a work, and doesn't actually say anything about whether the work successfully gets across a point to people other than you.

First of all, "a work" is not necessarily artful. Because somebody made it doesn't make it art. Getting a point across is not even necessarily a criteria. "A poem should not mean but be." Again, a common consesus aesthetic judgment.

And even if a work objectively sucks: you haven't explained why suckitude and art are mutually exclusive.

Because I am drawing a distinction between "art equals things which humans make" and "art equals really good things which people make." So the notion of quality is the distinction (cf., "original/execution" graph). Bad art is art which fails in either originality or execution or both. When it fails in that way it fails to meet the standard for Art.

I was more stapling my hand to my forehead that referring to a particular genre.

But that's where that gesture comes from. Anyway, whether it's a false stereotype or not it still has tremendous currency as a myth. Rock stars try to live that way every day. Except for the sensible ones, I suppose but they are failing at Rock Stardom.

it still has tremendous currency as a myth

Enh. Still makes me puke. I've watched that myth hurt people. I don't think I've ever seen it help.

I don't think I've ever seen it help.

I didn't say it was helpful, just resonant.

David, who is your arbiter of what's good art?

I didn't say it was helpful, just resonant.

I never said it wasn't resonant, so if you were indeed making an a argument counter to mine there was some misunderstanding.