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Art is a kind of illness.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Great artists suffer for the people.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.