Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

艺术不是关于美，而是关于真理。

Literature is the memory of humanity, the record of our collective soul.

我不相信过度分散投资。我更喜欢集中在几个好主意上。