… it is certainly best to separate an artist from his work in such a way that one does not take him as seriously as his work. Ultimately, he is only the precondition for his work, the womb, the soil, under certain circumstances the fertilizer and manure out of which something grows – and therefore – in most cases, something that one has to forget if one wishes to enjoy the work itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Zur Genealogie der Moral”
