There's a vast amount of nonsense talked about the necessity of separation between a man and his work--that the public has no business with the creator, only with his creations.

It is partly true.

Still, no man ever created anything in which he did not include a sample of himself--if not what he himself is, at least what he would like to be and what he likes and dislikes in others.

No creator who shows his work can hope to remain entirely anonymous.

And--I am not yet certain that the public has no right to make its comments on the man who did the work as well as on the work which it is asked to judge." "The man is nothing; the work everything," quoted Burleson, heavily.
"So I've heard," observed Annan, blandly.