You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he
took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to
Vienna to live and study. He applied to the Academy of
Fine Arts and later to the School of Architecture.
Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I.
Resistance beat him.
Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was
easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for
him to face a blank square of canvas.
- Steven Pressfield, The War of Art