"The mind of a painter should be..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.”

“France lost a great novel last night.”

“You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.”

“As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.”

“Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.”

“Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.”

“In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.”