Copying others is a good way to start. Copying yourself is a disappointing way to end.

The only limits we have are the ones we set for ourselves.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

如果你的目标没有时间表，那它就只是一个梦想。

蓬草长在麻地里，不用扶它也能挺立；把白沙放在黑土里，白沙也就变成黑的了。这两个例子说明，环境对一个人的影响，是非常大的，所以才有了《孟母三迁》的故事。