If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

"All the time you spend trying to get back what's been taken from you, more is going out the door."

福楼拜认为不能用一种艺术形式解释另一种，伟大的画作无需言语解说。

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.