I don't spend a moment thinking about the artist when I'm consuming art.

I don't get into hero worship or creating my identity around what I consume. That would be the only reason I would think you would even care about the personal lives of the painter, the director or the composer of a piece. Maybe you would get interested in the history of it and then you would go down that path, but it shouldn't change how you feel about the work itself.

Artists are almost always unbalanced individuals. It's usually what drives them to that path in the first place. Joe the Accountant, living in the suburbs, isn't writing brilliant comedy or revolutionizing sound. You dig into any of them and you're probably going to find something untoward.