"The cerebral explanation is that a sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, subconsciously integrated appraisal of man and of existence. Life is the highest possible value a man can hold, and living that life the best he can is the only moral course. "But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." - John Galt's Speech (by Ayn Rand) This painting celebrates man's heroic pursuit of true happiness in life." - Christian Mengele, July 20 2009