The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
"The key is not to get too high when things are going well and not too low when things are going bad."
善于灭火的人,不会迎着烟雾去扑;善于防备水灾的人,不会在水流湍急的地方去防护。