Originally Posted by starrynight

Also how is an artist in despair if he is producing a successful musical creation, he's probably quite happy at what he has done. If anything he/she is exorcising the grief and so finding a way to put it more in the past. So the work actually isn't just related to the grief, but is just as much related to the artist finding his way out of his problems. So if it justifies the grief, it also justifies his/her having found a way out of that grief too.