Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.