Friedrich Nietzsche on art
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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The very thought of you has my legs spread apart like an easel with a canvas begging for art.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.
Jack CanfieldJack Canfield We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can’t rewrite the agro of my furied heart.
Lady GagaLady Gaga For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you’re not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?
Dua LipaDua Lipa I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It’s no longer the genre that dictates it.
Dua LipaDua Lipa For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.
Lady GagaLady Gaga As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.
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