知道一个人不是为他人写作，知道我将要写的这些东西永远不会让我被我所爱的人爱。
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never make me loved by the one I love.
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
摧毁人民最有效的方式是否认和抹杀他们对自己历史的理解。