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Artist Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
- Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over…
- Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.
- All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
- In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and…
- The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
- An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
- We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
- Art raises its head where creeds relax.
- Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
- Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
- Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by…
- When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair…
- No artist tolerates reality.
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