The artist is always confronted.
Anxious, depressed, or manic are ways some artists move throughout the world, the work is grounding. For the more or less creative unaffected by the aforementioned, the work itself is often cathartic.
Throughout the life of an artist it’s possible some choice, loss, or event could happen, which confront and put to test creative desires and metal. One either continues to use their work as the path through which revelations and answers are sought and revealed, or allows the mood to overcome and throw their point and its goal off track, therefore stepping back from the creative process.
It is only by forcing the routine carefully and delicately, with a lot in time doing so, that the artist comes through the fire and grows as a creative individual, which encompasses various forms of expression - and the most important form of growth, the developing of one’s humanity and character.
m.c.f.