“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One might be tempted to extol as an advance over Sophocles the radical tendency of Euripides to produce a proper relation between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The craft, trade, agriculture, science, a large part of the art - all this can only stand on a broad base ,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Rather the artist’s delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
