现实是一个视角问题；你离过去越远，它看起来就越具体和可信——但当你接近现在时，它不可避免地显得越来越不可思议。

I’m not trying to be different. To me, it’s the only way I know how to paint.

——《在东京（民报）创刊周年庆祝大会的演说》（1906年12月2日）

I don’t think I’ll ever stop writing love songs.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.