A painting must be beautiful in itself, not because it represents something beautiful.
一幅画本身必须美丽,而不是因为它代表美丽的事物。
The writer's task is to name the unnameable.
The city is the greatest human invention, and architects must serve its evolution.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. Men’s happiness or misery is most part of their own making. He, whose mind directs not wisely, will never take the right way; and he, whose body is crazy and feeble, will never be able to advance in it.
理解的提高有两个目标:首先,我们自己的知识增长;其次,使我们能够将这些知识传递给他人。