Nietzche
believes we turn to art because it is a way tolerate life because he believes it is so awful, and if we faced
the truth, we wouldn’t want to be a part of it.
He seperates his art into two words, Apolline and Dionysiac.
When I was reading on theory on Dionysiac art, I found a
quote that interest me:
“These dionysiac stirrings, which, as they grow in
intensity, cause to subjectivity to vanish to the point of complete self-forgetting,
awaken either under the influence of narcotic drink, of which all human beings
and peoples who are close to the origin of things speak in their hymns, or at
the approach of spring when the whole of nature is pervaded by lust for life.”
When I first read this quote, what automatically came to
my mind was something I’ve always heard and strongly believed in, “the drunken
mind speaks the sober heart.” I really do think you reveal your true feelings
about something when you’re under the influence, and that is Nietzche is saying
in his quote about dionysiac.
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