Freedom is not given, it is taken.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

The act of painting is an act of surrender.

所有人都是不朽的，但那些没有受教育的人是以一种更低级和不令人羡慕的方式不朽。

预测未来的最好方法就是去发明它。