Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

The only thing I care about is the art. If I can't be creative, I don't really see the point in doing anything else.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

不过是君主不把它［爱人利人］用在政事上,士大夫也不把它付诸行动罢了。

"The photograph is just the starting point. The painting is something else entirely."

人生太重要，不能严肃地谈论它。