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Originally Posted by Rubato
If an amazing piece of art is the by-product of despair and suffering then it its far better than suffering for nothing. Compiling your thoughts and emotions into a piece of music/painting/poem/diary is therapeutic so I'd don't see any downside. If on the other hand the artist purposefully creates distressing situations in which to draw from, then we'd have a scruple on our hands, but then again artists are known to be eccentric.
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I agree whole-heartedly. Jacques Brel once said that what he wanted to accomplish was to benefit from that therapeutic effect. He didn't specifically want to sing or write or act, he wanted to project his feelings, his dreams, his failures unto the outside world. In a way, it's making one's dreams come true, but it's also taking one's failures and one's frustrations and turning them into something other people can enjoy or relate to. If this type of sharing were done more often, perhaps we'd be a much more enlightened species.