>>11827this response is late as fuck so you probbaly wont see it but ill speak my mind anyway
>I would have spurts where I couldn’t stop, and I made interesting stuff. same. it almost feels like a compulsion. sometimes i have all of those feelings bubbling inside of me and the only thing that helps is making art
>I don’t believe depression can make you a good artist, but it’s naive to say some people don’t find inspiration in itngl i think that you can only be a good artist if youre mentally ill. i think that art is always a form of escapism from a shitty life, and most mentally ill people have a shitty life by default, so they (we) are more prone to be the creative types. its not that art brings misety its that art is created out of misery. i genuinely have never met an interesting artist who wasnt mentally ill to some degree
>I don’t want to believe depression makes better art .. but it can absolutely have an influence if you know how to wield iti agree, tho i dont have depression (i think?) but i suffer from a plethora of other stuff and being like that mentally puts you onto the edges of society and kind of opens your mind in a way. like it makes you find beauty/comfort in unusual things and thats what makes people who are fucked in the head interesting artists.