„Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„Art is the proper task of life.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.“
— Margaret Fuller
„The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.“
— James Joyce
„It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.“
— Albert Einstein
„Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„No one in art has yet penetrated as far [as Dostoyevsky into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.“
— Edvard Munch