——《在东京中国留学生欢迎大会的演说》（1905年8月13日）

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.

Innovation without practicality is just noise—farmers need real solutions.

I don’t paint for the audience. I paint for me.

国家有贤德之士而不任用，不是贤德之士的过失，而应该是拥有这个国家的君主的羞耻。