A Thought

To reject the artistic works of the makers because of the imperfection of their earthly lives is to spit in the face of the possibility of spiritual transmutation. That work might be the sheltering haven of an idealization, some desideratum of life or codons for such a desideratum, and this might be something which was in no way reflected in the earthly, physical, "concrete" life of the artist. Art is not something ingrained in the individual. As soon as it is created, it is free of its creator. At "birth," it is already as if the creator no longer existed. So to "punish" the work for its association with its maker is retrograde. The work of art is totally clueless as to its parentage. Good orphan that it is, it is only too willing to be adopted by others and taught different values. It waits in the public thoroughfare for any benevolent souls charitable enough to see something good in it and take it in.