Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to…

— Anthony Storr

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious…

— Walter Russell

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and…

— Joseph Pilates

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is…

— Henry Miller

“Our task of man is to find the few formulas that will assuage the infinite anguish of free souls. We have to sew up…

— Albert Camus

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron

“[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite”

— Alain de Botton

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition…

— Colin Wilson

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of…

— William James

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The problem of modern man is no longer so much how he can live with gods and demons, but how he can survive with…

— Jürgen Moltmann