经济理论提供工具，但现实世界的测试会完善它们。

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

I write to understand what cannot be understood.

我本无才又多病，身体衰弱，没想到虚名却传到了皇帝耳中。

你的声音就是你的力量，永远不要让任何人压制它。

除非绝对必要，否则不要改变你的创作。如果确实需要改变，那就简单些。

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

人生最重要的是活得开心，其他都是次要。