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Nietzsche and Art

Note 40 — Deductions from Part I.

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T. I., Part 10, Aph. "Nature, estimated artistically, is no model. It exaggerates, it distorts, it leaves gaps. Nature is accident. Studying 'according to nature' seems to me a bad sign; it betrays subjection, weakness, fatalism; this lying-in-the-dust before petit fails is unworthy of a complete artist. Seeing what is—that belongs to another species of intellects, to the anti-artistic, to the practical."

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