For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the world justified.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication

Art is the proper task of life.