See you in hell.

A successful artwork shows us something we haven't seen before. It does this by drawing our attention to an aspect of our experience through a representation of that experience in a particular medium. As such, all art attains its power through metaphor.

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood”

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance. We want to feel as remote from the world as we can. As remote as we can: that is hardly strong enough; we want a world turned upside down and inside out. The truth of eroticism is treason.”

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature… yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are — vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth — and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.