An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
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Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
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.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.
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