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If you study art history just a little bit, you will "see" that artists are mostly troubled spirits.
Today we're expecting artists to be role models, while a great majority seems to be comfortable with presidents being sociopathic conman pussy grabbers (), genocidal maniacs (Natenyahu) or whatever Putin is.
Artists were often nourished by transgression. Most of them were (are) surviving as marginals and when they were (are) lucky to leave behind some of their works (instead of being forgotten completely) it's not so that their lives can be judged by moral codes of whatever era some narrow mind can find their selves in.
You're lucky, if you find yourself in front of a Rodin sculpture to admire the work.