The most profound art often emerges from the tension between tradition and innovation.

忽视环境影响的生产力指标只是会计把戏，而非真正的进步。

所以天将要把重大任务落到这个人身上，一定先要使他的心志痛苦，使他的筋骨劳累，使他的身体饥饿，使他的身子穷困，并且使他的每一行为总是不能如意，借此来使他的内心震动，坚韧他的性情，增加他的才干。

The artist must be blind to distinctions between 'class' and 'popular'. The artist must love life and show that we can be a mirror to the world and humanity.

There is no such thing as great wisdom in the world, just as there is no such thing as talent. What exists is triviality. If you keep doing repetitive things, you become an expert; if you do repetitive things with special focus, you become a master.

The city is the greatest architectural achievement of humanity.

每一颗种子都有改变世界的潜力。

"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else."

帮助地球最有效的方法就是停止食用动物。