Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Art Quotes, Talking Quotes

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

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Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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Art lies in concealing art.

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.

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And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

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