Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
Friedrich NietzscheThere is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.
Friedrich NietzscheThat God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche