Just as the artist is entitled to make art as he feels like it, the audience is entitled to like it or not, but, in both cases, we should be intellectually honest. The artist cannot criticise the audience for not liking his art, and the audience must never dismiss art based on their own prejudices.

An extreme case of this is, of course, Leni Riefenstahl, whose movies were nazi propaganda, but one can't judge them based on that, but on their own artistic merits or demerits.