Artist Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the great stimulus to life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Where we encounter the "naïve" in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One might be tempted to extol as an advance over Sophocles the radical tendency of Euripides to produce a proper relation between…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No artist tolerates reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche