Quote of the Day

"So many artists I admire seem to have taken their own lives. What role does Art have in unhappiness? Did Art make their lives any easier? Or harder? Did their creations, that bring hope and insight to the rest of us, do much for them? Were they plagued by self doubt, unconsoled by praise and success, immune to the beauty they'd made? Do the same sensitivity and self examination that fuel art also make it easier to come to such abysmal conclusions about the universe and one's place in it that one is driven down this dark cul-de-sac? How does the same mind that creates beauty out of nothing also create nothing out of the beauty of life? From the outside, suicide seems so final and so unimaginative."

From a meditation on Spalding Gray at Everyday Matters