[Borges]

I don't think Michaeangelo would endorse cutting the Arts out of your life.

[GSlob]

He was writing about evil-living and scandalous people, [say, our so-called "celebrities"]. What these people were purporting to do - art or no art - was not even secondary but immaterial. Their quality as humans [if they are human, indeed], came WAY BEFORE their nominal occupation. As one of Michelangelo's pupils, Vasari, wrote about the "modernizing" architects of his time, who were overstraining themselves in trying to appear original at any cost [sounds familiar, doesn't it?]: "All their things are monstrous and worse than German". You could take this phrase and apply it to what you charitably called "Art", for their "Art" is indeed degenerate, like themselves.