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.
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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--...

Apr 18, 2020 · 2:22 PM UTC

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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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