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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Gains, Nuance
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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
Art, Believe, Book

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Real, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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
Art, Nature, Truth
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy”

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Plato, Philosophy

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, People, Brutality
"Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Gains, Imitation

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Order, Creative

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

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Indispensable, Aesthetic
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Relax, Creeds
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.93, Courier Corporation

Sleep is no mean art.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Mean, Sleep

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Artist, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Geuss, Ronald Speirs (1999). “Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Home, Europe
"Why I Am so Clever".

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

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

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Two, Needs

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Dresses, Worn
"Human, All Too Human".

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
Art, Eye, Hands
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.164, Vintage

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Believe, Ego
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow

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

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
Dream, Art, Reality

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Everyday Things, Common

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
Art, Mean, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.261, Modern Library

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