What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
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