Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art is the great stimulus to life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Franklin Roosevelt

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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Robert Frost

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