You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

绘画应该是一个事实，而不是表现。

更快、更高、更强。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.