ngl, I think I'm actually envious of the painter. People tend to get bored once they run out of things to do, but he never seemed to until the day he died.
I've heard of cases like this, I think they called it "the curse of the muse" or something along that line where the artist gets this incredible ammount of inspiration that drive them to keep working often to their d3ath but leaving behind incredible works of art that transcend their time, in old times it was often atributted to supernatural entities that would get their hooks on said artists and would "inspired" them to madness, in irish culture they are often referred as "Leanan sídhe" and are seen as some sort of fairies drawn to artists musicians, writters, etc of great skill.
