For every great work of art, literature, or architecture that gets completed, there are probably just as many that are abandoned and left unfinished because of wars, political strife, lack of funding, or the death of the artist. Most of these works are lost and forgotten, but some, by masters like Da Vinci and Mozart, [...]

Usually when thinking about disabilities, most people assume that someone with a disability is limited in one way or another. Who would ever think that a blind person could still play an instrument? Or that someone who doesn’t have perfect hearing is still able to sing as if that disability doesn’t even exist? Not many [...]

These writers, musicians, and painters created masterpieces in the realms of literature, music, and art. At different stages of their lives, every person on this list suffered from severe hardships, mental illness and feelings of loneliness and despair. All of them suffered for their art in order to create legacies of great imagination and epic [...]