laperlla:

“For Plato, colour was as dangerous a narcotic as poetry. He wanted both out of the republic. He called painters “mixers and grinders of multi-coloured drugs,” and colour itself a form of pharmakon. The religious zealots of the Reformation felt similarly: they smashed the stained glass windows of churches, thinking them idolatrous, degenerate.”

— Maggie Nelson, Bluets (via thebluesthour)