The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

经验只是我们给错误起的名字。

The past is never dead; it is not even past.

——在日本与宫崎寅藏谈论其革命宗旨与方法，1897年

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

我建议年轻艺术家尽己所能地画，只要还能画就不要害怕画得糟糕。