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Art Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

106 Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Style as art means shaping one’s own character, a rare skill Nietzsche admires. He says art is a way to face truth, and that true artists seek only food and their work, not fame. He warns that copying earns respect, while genuine creation can be uncomfortable.

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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Sleep is no mean art.

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Art is the proper task of life.

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Art is the great stimulus to life.

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Discontent is the seed of ethics

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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

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“Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.”

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

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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 great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even…

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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…

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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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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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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror…

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“Plato's objection to the older art--that it is the imitation of a phantom and hence belongs to a sphere even lower than…

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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded…

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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and…

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance…

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“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described…

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We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as…

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A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and…

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“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that…

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act…

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“Reaction against the machine-culture. - The machine, itself a product of the highest intellectual energies, sets in motion in those who server…

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“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is…

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“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the…

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“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;…

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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it…

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“Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and…

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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

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“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

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Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

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