Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Art

• Art is the proper task of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Art, Fools Day

• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

• As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Home, Europe

  "Why I Am so Clever".

• We have art in order not to die of the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Order, Creative

• We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Reality, Dies

• 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

  Life, Happiness, Success

• In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Reflection

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Blessing, Affirmation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

• Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Philosophy, Men

• One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Giving, Existence

• 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

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Gains, Imitation

• We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

• The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Giving, World

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.567, Vintage

• The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Ugly, Truth Is

• 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

  Life, Motivational, Art

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1951). “My Sister and I”, Olympia Press

• 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

  Art, Character, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.67, Penguin

• The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Passion

• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Quality

  "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Revenge, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.233, Vintage

• 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

  Art, Healing, Miracle

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.131, Courier Corporation

• 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

  Art, Lying, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Drinking, Intoxication

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