Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
Great artists suffer for the people.
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
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