Activity Quote by 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

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

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

— Jean Dubuffet

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

— Cyril Connolly

“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

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

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

— Herbert Read

“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

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

— May Sarton

“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

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann