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"Nietzsche's interest in art was by no means either exclusively academic or merely personal...he speaks disparagingly of readers who 'may find it offensive that an aesthetic problem should be taken so seriously', and who are 'unable to consider art more than a pleasant sideline, a readily dispensable tinkling of bells that accompanies the seriousness of life...' Against them, he advances the startling contention that 'art represents the highest task and the truly metaphysical activity of this life'. 'And it has been observed', he goes on to maintain, 'that the arts generally serve to make life possible and worth living... that it is as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified'.
- Richard Schacht, from Nietzsche On Art In The Birth Of Tragedy
"Nietzsche's interest in art was by no means either exclusively academic or merely personal...he speaks disparagingly of readers who 'may find it offensive that an aesthetic problem should be taken so seriously', and who are 'unable to consider art more than a pleasant sideline, a readily dispensable tinkling of bells that accompanies the seriousness of life...' Against them, he advances the startling contention that 'art represents the highest task and the truly metaphysical activity of this life'. 'And it has been observed', he goes on to maintain, 'that the arts generally serve to make life possible and worth living... that it is as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified'.
- Richard Schacht, from Nietzsche On Art In The Birth Of Tragedy