A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own
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