"The statesman is also an artist. For him, the nation is exactly what the stone is for the sculptor. Führer and masses, that is as little of a problem as, say, painter and colour. Politics is the art of creating a state, like painting is an artistic creation with colours. Thus, politics without the people or against the people is pure nonsense. To form the masses into a Volk and the Volk into a state has always been the deepest meaning of politics." Joseph Goebbels