"If there is to be art, if..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”

“Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.”

“Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.”

“Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.”

“Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.”

“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.”

“Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!”

“There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.”

“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”