The question of whether it is possible to separate the artist from their work has been debated for a long time. Even though positive critical reviews about an artist's behavior can improve their artistic achievements, people should treat artists as individuals who have lived apart from their work.
One of the reasons is that even artists have shortcomings. Like any other human being, an artist can make mistakes, and we cannot be severely judgmental of every person that falls into error. Cancel culture with endless criticism is concerned more with how we should disregard the artists when they make mistakes than with how their weakness can be used by the artists to create art that is unique.
Perhaps Kevin Hart's words support this thought. He asks "When did we get to a point where life was supposed to be perfect? Where people were supposed to operate perfectly all the time?" When people start seeing artists as human beings, they'll see them for who they are and review their behavior not on the basis of their art but on the basis of their humanity.
It should be also noted that there are works of art that are inspired by the artist's experience. For example, the themes in the Harry Potter books are so connected with J. K. Rowling's wicked worldview that it is actually impossible to separate the two from each other. Since canceling artists based on their worldview would mean the reception to their art will suffer, artists become tense and unwilling to express themselves, which will kill creativity, eventually leading to the death of art. Comedians, singers or painters who should be mixing contemporary（当代的） issues with their works become boring, and art stops functioning as the social mirror it ought to be.
An artist who makes mistakes still has art with intrinsic (内在的) value, benefiting entire communities or cultures, For instance, one can respect the late Michael Jackson because of how he influenced pop music and the inclusion of black musicians in mainstream media despite his personal weaknesses, opinions, worldviews and associations.
While these artists may engage in their terrible behavior, the art they produce today may serve as an example for others to produce outstanding work in the future. Some would refer to this process as a cycle. Good art should, therefore, be judged due to its value and not the value of the artist.
