唯一真正的快乐来自于为一个目的挥霍自己。
The only real happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
絵画とは、見えるものと見えないものの境界を探求する行為である。
Art is God's gift to mankind.
The more I write, the more I disappear.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.