So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

I am exhausted if I don't work.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.