Top 65 Quotes About Art Nietzsche
#1. We have art,' Nietzsche said, 'so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth.
Michael Ondaatje
#3. In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind, - that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. One physiological precondition is indispensible for there to be art: intoxication, or the feeling of fullness and increasing strenth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. Sleeping, as Nietzsche put it, 'is no mean art; you need to stay awake all
Kieran Conway
#21. And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile
to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Even now it is ceasing to be art of the nobleman, and it is quite possible that some day one may find it so common and even vulgar that, along with all party literature and journalism, one would classify it as prostitution of the spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. The one necessary thing. - A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. We have art in order not to die from the truth. - NIETZSCHE
Donna Tartt
#32. Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy).
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Nietzsche would have put it, we need art in order not to die from the truth.
Simon Critchley
#39. They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.
Sean Lennon
#40. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth
her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. All life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only - annihilation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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