"If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. Frenzy must first have enhanced the excitability of the whole machine; else there is no art," wrote 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols. Can art teach us about how better to live life? We explore the radical implications of this idea.

<p>"If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. Frenzy must first have enhanced the excitability of the whole machine; else there is no art," wrote 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols. Can art teach us about how better to live life? We explore the radical implications of this idea.</p>

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