Ever wonder why suffering causes genius in artists?

Question

I recently found out why. Ever since I left the Army, I have been in a battle to prevent poverty from setting in and as of now, I am not winning by leaps in bounds. Maybe some day soon, for I will and do what I can to get out it.

However, I am now in a situation I often wonder about how to pay the rent, afford groceries and afford my car payments so I can get to work on time so I can retain ajob to keep an income.
It is not absolute hell, however it is not the best situation to be in.

Due to the suffering, stress and frustration of dealing with my situation, I find my self writing more material (comedy routines and stories.) to express my frustration and problems and help clear my head and keep my cool. It is a way to let out negative emotions that cannot be expressed verbally or cannot be worked out in polite conversations.

The need to express becomes a need to create. Thats my theory, what is yours?

Answer 1

I don't have a 'real' answer for the question but I wanted to agree with it.
I dance, I write peoms, I draw and I have a pure devotion to school/college/learning.
My goal in life to have my own dance studio where I teach the art of expression through body movement.

My mother is all I have, she is schizophrenic and I have been diagnosed as depressed and bi-polar. I'd rather not think that I am bi-polar. I also suffer from panic disorder. In my opinion my conditions are light (compared to sicknesses such as schizophrenia) and they can improve with a Quality of Life. Of course Quality of Life is only achieved through Quantity of Means. No one can tell me otherwise.

I feel ya Peguin, I've been keeping an eye on you. We are in the same boat. I really wanted to help you with your charity question, I asked mom but she said every state is different. We are on the east coast.

P.S. Van Gough was a schizophrenic so was a very famous male ballerina but he had one of those hard to remember names.

Answer 2

Suffering causes nothing but suffering. Genius is in the person and might be expressed as a result of suffering but suffering is not required. Sometimes people out of desperation have a thought or an idea that influences others to take up their cause. Sometimes it's a flash of brilliance that makes the lives of others more meaningful or worthwhile. Most of the time, persons who need help make their own help by finding a job or doing a task they get rewarded for. Some don't and rely on the State to support their sorry assimilation of humanity. We all have a mind, we don't all use it.

Answer 3

I personally believe that your theory based on venting is a very good one, but personally when reading the question my mind immediately jumped to the statement : "you have to lose to appreciate winning." So maybe "art genius" inspired by loss is the artist expressing happiness ; for they know what happiness is because of the loss they've experienced. If I've expressed myself reasonably for people to understand . sometimes my fingers can't keep up with my mind and my thoughts get jumbled into muttering babble that only i can understand. I personally use both to write my songs, venting and experience, but im not sure; does anyone else have an opinion?

Answer 4

I think you're spot on. I know that the reason I write music is to express things that would otherwise build up inside of me, as there's just no other way for me to express them. Some artists are born painters, some musicians, and some poets - but the drive to create genuine art always derives from a need to express feelings, not from external stimuli (i.e. getting paid to paint a portrait, write a song, etc.)

Answer 5

I completely agree with you. At first I thought that I was not artistic, so I never tried to do anything artistic. Then some things happened in my life and I all of a sudden had this deep down feeling of wanting to just do (its really hard to explain the feeling). So I started to draw and write poetry I realized that I could make beautiful/meaningful art. Being able to express myself in this manner gave me a whole new perspective on life and that "emptiness" was filled.

Answer 6

My theory is similar: the suffering we have makes us dig deeper into ourselves to achieve our goals. So while we struggle to make ends meet, we learn things about ourselves that are redirected into an inspiration for our art. The pressure not to SAY anything about our suffering becomes expressed in our art. In comedy we learn that situations that make us laugh the hardest are the ones that are most like human experience. It has long been said: we either laugh, or we cry. Crying lets the pain out; laughing allows us to grow.

Answer 7

i can say from my own life experiences and being a musician and an artist that is absolutely true. but also we enjoy just spending hours on end creating new things then being able to step back and say "wow. look at that! isn't it great?!" gives us a sort of sense of accomplishment when we create new and interesting things. also helps us get it all out when there's nobody to talk to. and for those of us that suffer from insomnia(such as myself) it helps with otherwise long boring nights.

Answer 8

I totally agree with your theory but i think its not the only theory. Some create for a reward, and some for satisfaction and some because its an expectation. And i think there are more theories out there.

Answer 9

i agree. some of the best work i've done was when i was upset or angry or frustrated. sometimes it's like if i don't feel anything it doesn't come out quite the way i want it to be. i guess it's because when you're venting through work you're not concerned with how things look or how they sound or even technique. you just want to get it out.

Answer 10

whilst i exchange into vegetarian, i did not even know approximately that. merely figured that the cows produce milk, the lads flow to be raised for pork...which i did not help...yet could not do something approximately. I additionally figured that the hens could lay eggs besides...did not know approximately cages, merely theory they have been in a roost like on the cartoons. as quickly as I discovered approximately how hens are taken care of, i finished ingesting eggs. as quickly as I discovered on the subject of the cows and rape racks and the binds to the veal marketplace, I grew to alter right into a strict vegetarian. as quickly as I discovered approximately how sheep are sheared and that animal testing is over ninety % cosmetics, i desperate to be carried out with the coolest purchase and be vegan. yet right this is the element. human beings do merely not know approximately those issues. it particularly is why there is companies like vegan outreach. i did not know approximately those till i exchange into an person. yet many vegetarians are not vegan because of the fact they prefer to be sociable. maximum places supply vegetarian nutrition...yet not vegan. Or they mind-blowing source their dairy and eggs and notice first hand that the animals are not taken care of extraordinarily (welfarist rather of being abolitionist). Or they merely basic don't think that it particularly is wholesome. There are historical vegetarian societies...yet human beings do not hear approximately vegan ones. yet you particularly shouldn't attack vegetarians. They do a hell of so lots greater stable than doing not something in any respect. you're going after the incorrect demographic once you're attempting to do the main stable for the main quantity of animals. in case you attempt to persuade a typical relatives to be vegetarian at some point of the week, it particularly is a million/7 help in meat intake. That saves far greater animals than a vegetarian going vegan will shop. you're additionally making it look like vegans choose persons. which will alienate distinctive means vegans. many human beings view vegans as severe...and your question proves this element. Do i think it does greater stable to be vegan than vegetarian? of direction...in any different case i would not problem. yet different than coaching human beings approximately why you're vegan rather of vegetarian, the different discourse or communicate that accuses vegetarians of not doing sufficient is counter effective. If, after coaching them, they don't care...they don't care. you won't be able to tension empathy.