The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
每个艺术家的目标都是用人为的手段来捕捉运动（即生命），并将其固定，以便一百年后，当一个陌生人看着它时，它又动了起来，因为它就是生命。
I'm not afraid of aging. I think it's a privilege to grow old.
The worst pain is not the pain itself, but the loneliness of suffering.
The historian must have some kinship with his subject. The dead will not speak unless they are properly addressed.
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices they would not have made had they seen what their choices involved.
To understand a culture, one must first understand its language.