“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
英语
“我们所见与所知之间的关系从未确定。”
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her. You put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”
英语
“你画了一个裸女，因为你喜欢看她。你在她手中放了一面镜子，然后把这幅画取名为"虚荣"，从而在道德上谴责了这个为你自己的愉悦而被描绘裸体的女人。”
“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world.”
英语
“观看先于语言。孩子在能说话之前就已经在看和辨认。但观看先于语言还有另一层含义。正是观看确立了我们在周围世界中的位置。”
“The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.”
英语
“过去不是用来栖居的；它是一口结论之井，我们从中汲取以便行动。”