Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning…

— Jean Dubuffet

“I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a…

— Marcel Duchamp

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

— Jean Dubuffet

“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that…

— Benedetto Croce

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...”

— Cyril Connolly

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

— Will Self

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

— Cyril Connolly

“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public…

— Glenn Gould

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

— Herbert Read