“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.” - Charles Bukowski

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. - James Joyce

“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this” ― Richard Brautigan

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself! - Henry Miller

Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger is a Swiss surrealists painter, sculpture, and set designer. Giger is often referred to in pop culture, especially in science fiction and cyberpunk, and is well known for his design work on the film alien.

His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, described as "biomechanical". His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery. His main influences were painters Ernst Fuchs and Salvador Dali. He met Salvador Dalí, to whom he was introduced by painter Robert Venosa. He was also a personal friend of Timothy Leary. Giger suffers from night terrors and his paintings are all to some extent inspired by his experiences with that particular sleep disorder. He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich (from 1962 to 1970) and made his first paintings as a means of art therapy.