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You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

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

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

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

Art is a kind of illness.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.