Creativity Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who create are hard of heart.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Când Dumnezeu şi-a-ntors privirea de la sine — atunci a creat lumea.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended…

— 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

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond your creating will. Could ye CREATE a God?—Then,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though…

— 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

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche