自然从不陷入单纯的重复，每个个体都是新的变体。

我们站在巨人的肩膀上，他们首先将地球想象为一个动态系统。

重要的不是你得到了什么，而是你没有失去什么。

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.

"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."

写作是一种生活方式，一种理解世界和理解自己的方式。