They Get It Faster Now

Some artists, especially singers, use their pain and suffering to build connections with their audience. For example, depression that one is experiencing can be the soul of a song or an artwork. The artist grabs a dark part of his or her soul, breaks it down and puts it in a plate for the audience to absorb. Tortured artists obviously have more than enough dark parts in them. Lots of tortured artists use drugs to cope with their pain too. Well the drug affects faster and more intense when it breaks down and gets snorted. . "Van Gogh painted The Starry Night while in emotional torment; Lennon and McCartney forged their creative partnership following the death of their respective mothers; Milton penned Paradise Lost after losing his wife, his daughter, and his eyesight. Such unremitting grief would send even the most grounded among us into a frenzied Xanax binge and associated fetal position, but these celebrated artists chose not to recoil in passive suffering. Instead, they turned their sorrow into something the world would cherish." - Christopher Zara