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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a c

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C. S. Lewis

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. – Wilson Mizner

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

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Ive always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. – Jerry Saltz

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It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. – Andre Dubus

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