And so while dreams are the individual man’s play with reality, the sculptor’s art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
ATTRIBUTION:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 1, p. 554, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). “The Dionysian Worldview,” part 1 (1871).
An unpublished manuscript containing material later used in The Birth of Tragedy.
