Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence.
建筑是一种全能和无能的有害混合物。
过去不是负担，而是基础。
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.
The artist must be a warrior of the spirit.
