"color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can epress our own emotions..." -Henri Matisse (as if that's surpising)

Nothing will come from this moment-

nothing will be lost but aching memory.

"How, if someday or night a daemon were to sneak after you into your loneliest loneliness adn say to you, 'this life as you now lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; (as in Sisyphus) and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything immeasurably great or small in your life must return to you- all in the same succession and sequence..' would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the daemon who spoke thus? or did you once experience a tremendous moment when you would have answered him, 'you are a god, and never have i heard anything more godly'..[H]ow well disposed would you have become to yourself and to life to crave NOTHING MORE FERVENTLY than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?'

- Freidrich Nietzche

"The Gay Science" 1882, S. 34I