Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Art
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.
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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
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When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
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Sleep is no mean art.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
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And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.
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The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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