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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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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art must take reality by surprise. – Francoise Sagan

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Artists dont talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, its stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. – Paddy Chayefsky

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. – Camille Paglia

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Pablo Picasso

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon

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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. – P. D. James

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