The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

The motor of our ingenuity is the question ‘Does it have to be like this?’, from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.

"Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight."

艺术是从真理的谎言中解脱出来的魔法。

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.