On Creating Art and Living Life with Telos

Nietzsche believes that art is both the origin of morality and the tool for liberation, given its multifaceted creativity. Freud, influenced by Nietzsche, develops a system of psychoanalysis giving values to humans' imagination and memory. Art indeed, is a subjective beauty, imprinting humans' steps throughout history. It is space where humans can create without guilt or responsibility. It is the most permissible infinity where humans piece together their happiness.

However, it is with a telos that we enter into this stage, either for our pursuit of happiness or individual truths. It is with a purpose that we express our emotions and thoughts in arts. And art is evaluated by society with a standard. Boston's Museum of Bad Art is a fine example of objective judgement. So what is the art that can be evaluated with qualities and looked upon by the judging eyes? What is the art that is created for the purpose of liberation? It is the telos which gives a contradiction to liberation, for liberation itself is a telos and it can never escape the notion of telos. (Same for nihilism)

The hardest question, as Nietzsche says, is thus the absurdity of living a life full of sufferings with eternal recurrence. For it is without telos that we live in that situation. Or seeing in a different perspective, it is with a bad telos that we live with eternal sufferings. These two dimensions are so hard to distinguish that only Kierkegaard's murderer and knight of faith know the differences.