Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. — 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
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a… — 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
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. — 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
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit… — 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
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. — 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
The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the… — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Image
