“Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the existence of the world justified. Indeed, behind all becoming one recognizes nothing but an artistic sense and an artistic over-sense, a ‘god,’ if one wishes, but certainly only an entirely amoral and unscrupulous artist-god, who, in building as in destroying, in good as in evil, desires only to become conscious of his pleasure and sovereignty, identical in both; an artist-god who, creating worlds, frees himself from the necessity implied in fullness and over-fullness, from the suffering of the antitheses accumulated within him. The world, in each instant, the attained redemption of god, as the eternally changing, eternally new vision of the most suffering, most antithetical, most contradictory being, which knows how to redeem itself only in appearance: this entire artist-metaphysics may be called arbitrary, idle, phantasmagorical; what is essential in it is that it already betrays a spirit that will one day, despite all dangers, defend itself against the moral interpretation and significance of existence.”
“Let these serious men learn from this that I am convinced that art is the supreme task and the properly metaphysical activity of this life [...]”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music
Translation mine.
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