Question:
How do you tell the difference between your love for someone and your love for their work/their art? Does love for art translate into love for someone automatically? Does one's work become them?

I bring this up because I find the pupil-teacher relationships in Villette and The Professor very intriguing, especially in The Professor. Crimsworth finds Frances interesting because her work (her art) is different from all the rest. Through her compositions he was able to read into the world of her imagination. Because her work was so different from the rest of the pupils, Crimsworth becomes more interested in Frances. In doing so, he learns more about her life and then falls in love with her. But I wonder, could he not have just liked her work and appreciated it fully, instead of tangling this up with her as a person and having a romantic relationship with Frances? Did he just fall inlove with her Imagination? Or did he fall in love with all of Frances? Was Frances all Imagination?