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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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