The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
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Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
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.
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.
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