All FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quotes about “Art”

“Art is the proper task of life.”
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“We have art so that we shall not die of reality.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
“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.”
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
“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.”
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
“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.”
“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”
“For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.”
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
“Giving styleâ€ to oneâ€™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.”
“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.”
“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”
“We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”
“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.”
“Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.”

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