Anyone who cannot produce anything of value must depend on the generosity of others, and not make demands based on his need. The state should be separated from the economy in the same way and for the same reasons that church and state are separated. The only proper function of government is preventing the initiation of force. The government has no right to take the earnings of its citizens by force. The Objectivist esthetics is Romantic Realism.
Art is the selective recreation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments.
Good art is a projection of things as they could be and ought to be. In literature, the best examples of Romantic Realism are Ayn Rand's novels.