One of my projects during this Pause has been to work on editing my correspondence over several years with Sister Wendy Beckett, the hermit, known for her commentaries on art. Today, came across a passage that helped me reflect on a problem that has troubled me in the past year.

Apr 18, 2020 · 2:22 PM UTC

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"Can a bad man be a good artist? Surely goodness is essential and I think it follows that it is from this goodness that the wonder of art will spring. But of course sometimes a person is a mixture of goodness and badness--, Caravaggio is the obvious example--...
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...and it’s from the goodness in them that their art comes. The art is the goodness in a way, it’s what they aspire to be."--Sr. Wendy Beckett
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Thanks Robert. Please write more on this.
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Will do.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Is this a book project?
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Yes. I hope so.
Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Fr. M Owen Lee wrote a book on this... Richard Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art.
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