A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. – Leonardo da Vinci

If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. – Jasper Fforde

If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. – Jasper Fforde

Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius