"Make your faces so that they do..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.”

“Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.”

“It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.”

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”

“All high beauty has a moral element in it.”

“The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.”

“Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?”

“Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.”

“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”