The only way to understand painting is to look at it.

通过正确的视角观察，平凡会变得非凡。

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

最好的还在后头。