I make art to understand the world and my place in it.

历史是对于未来最好的老师。历史书中的答案价值万金 。

If you let yourself be undisciplined on the small things, you will probably be undisciplined on the large things as well.

释义：根据收入来安排支出，节俭持家。这句话强调理财的基本原则。

One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas—and you have to work through it all.

译文：一个人值得被传颂称赞，在于他有高尚的品德，不在于他有多高的地位；一个人被众人信服，在于他做事很务实，并不在于他只会夸夸其谈。赏析：生活中，我们欣赏一个人，都是看重对方的人品和素质。而那些狡诈多端，油嘴滑舌之徒，只会让人生厌。

I didn't start a business to make money, but to change the world.

Poetry is the medium through which we confront our own solitude.