Reputation

I feel for creative people who shun the limelight, who try and keep their private lives that way, who don't court fame but prefer to let their works speak for themselves. I suppose it's an attitude that accords with my own preference. Such individuals often acquire a  reputation  for being reserved, elusive, even reclusive characters.
Names that spring to mind include the authors J. D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon, film-makes Stanley Kubrick and Yorgos Lanthimos, musicians Van Morrison and Keaton Henson, painters Edward Munch and Georgia O'Keefe...and Banksy, who seems intent on remaining a complete enigma as his reputation ...