32 minutes into the documentary All That Is Sacred, Tom McGuane quotes Stéphane Mallarmé:
At the point at which an artist dies, whatever his life was, whatever his work was, they become one thing. They can be two things, but when they die, they become one thing.
This is a profound insight, but I’d go further: It applies not just to artists but to all of us.
Nehaveigur 