RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
August 21, 2019 at 5:14 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2019 at 6:15 am by Belacqua.)
Quote:Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
A thought which might suggest a corollary: bad art, or anti-art, makes us think that what is close at hand and vulgar is reality itself.