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We learn a lot of hard lessons in our lives. We are disillusioned, disappointed, disheartened and damaged over and over again, and one of the hardest lessons is this:
Sometimes terrible people make beautiful things.
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Sometimes terrible people make beautiful things.
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Art can inspire us. Art can strengthen us. Art can embolden us. Art can save us when nothing else can. And when that happens, we naturally gravitate towards the artist.
But it's the art that did all that. Most of the time, we don't know the artist. It just feels like we do.
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But it's the art that did all that. Most of the time, we don't know the artist. It just feels like we do.
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And sometimes, the artist becomes so bound up in our impression of the art they made that we refuse to see their feet of clay. We refuse to see the ugly side. We want to believe that artist *is* the art they made.
But they're not.
They never, ever are.
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But they're not.
They never, ever are.
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