Art Quotes
A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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.'
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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