The essential function of art is moral.
艺术不是反映现实的镜子,而是塑造现实的锤子。
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
The writer’s responsibility is to tell the untold stories.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.