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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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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. – Henri Matisse

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Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money. – Jerry Saltz

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Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art cant provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey. – Alanis Morissette

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