个人只有将自己置于自己的时代中，才能理解自己的经历并衡量自己的命运，只有意识到自己处境中所有个体的机会，才能知道自己的生活机会。
The individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
You have to grind when no one else is grinding so you can shine when no one else is shining.
I don’t like to explain my work. If I could say it in words, I wouldn’t need to paint it.
我不追随潮流，我创造潮流。
"To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk."