"...the Apolline, and its opposite, the Dionysiac, as artistic powers which spring from nature itself, without the mediation of the human artist, and in which nature's artistic urges are immediately and directly satisfied; on the one hand as the world of dream images, whose perfection is not at all dependent on the intellectual accomplishments or artistic culture of the the individual; on the other as an ecstatic reality, which again pays no heed to the individual, but even seeks to destroy individuality and redeem it with a mystical sense of unity."
pg. 18
"Those Greek festivals reveal a sentimental trait in nature, as though she were bemoaning her fragmentation into individuals."
pg. 20
"..we know the subjective artist only as a bad artist, and throughout the whole of art we demand above all else the conquest of the subjective, release from the 'self', and the silencing of all individual will and craving; indeed we cannot imagine a truly artistic creation, however unimportant, without objectivity, without pure and disinterested contemplation."
pg. 28
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Penguin Books
1993
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