Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Creativity

• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

• I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Creating, Want

• All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rain, Creativity, Sunshine

• I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Creative, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.126, Penguin

• Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Dream, Creativity

• Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Nuts, Would Be

• And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Evil, Firsts

• What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pregnancy, Creativity, Birth

• 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

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.133, Vintage

• Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Creativity, Hens

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.246, Penguin

• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Creativity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

• Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Creativity, Knowledge

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