"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
铁蛋儿的问题，不是他不识字，也不是他不会思考，而是他不知道什么是思考，并且将其与感觉相混淆。
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its triumph.
"Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk."
面对绝望时，唯一可以负责任地实践的哲学是试图从救赎的角度来思考一切事物。
一幅画必须是它自身的东西，而不是其他事物的再现。