Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.