Solace
"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me."
- Janis Joplin
To Janis Joplin, music was an escape from the depression and loneliness of everyday life. For Van Gogh, painting was his escape. Virginia Wolfe and Edgar Allen Poe--their writings. Perhaps, true artists must be miserable, for, from their pain, true beauty and solace are created.
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