我不追随潮流。我创造潮流。

我不能教会别人任何事。我只能让他们思考。

Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be a lesson that strengthens you.

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

The artist must be a servant of the absolute.

To be an artist is to embrace uncertainty.