What to Watch? (啟發我們的故事)

"Without serenity, one cannot achieve clarity of purpose; without tranquility, one cannot reach far." -Zhuge Liang

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."  —Albert Einstein

"The greatest harm to the nation comes from appointing unworthy people to positions of power. "-Kangxi Emperor

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." -Christopher Columbus.

"Know yourself and know your opponent; in a hundred battles, you will never be in peril." -Master of the Ghost Valley

"Music can ignite the flame of the human spirit." -Ludwig van Beethoven

"Chess is like life; those who master it find their joy." -Huang Longshi

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born." -Nikola Tesla

"Illness often arises from overeating or excessive hunger." -Hua Tuo

"To be, or not to be, that is the question." William Shakespeare

  "In war, deception is indispensable."- Han Xin

 “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” -Michael Jackson

  "A painting reflects the character of the artist." -Chang Dai-chien

 “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” -Sigmund Freud

 "Patience and strategy win battles, not brute force." -Hattori Hanzo

  "Art is never finished, only abandoned." -Leonardo da Vinci 

  "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." -Lao Tzu

 "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." -Madame Curie  

"As you sow, so shall you reap." -Hu Shih

“Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.” -Georges Seurat

"Fifty years in the world — a fleeting dream, an illusion." -Oda Nobunaga

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates

"A glance and a smile bring forth a hundred charms; the palace's beauties pale in comparison." -Yang Yuhuan

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” -Abraham Lincoln

“If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid!” -Genghis Khan

“To the artist, there is never anything ugly in nature.” -Auguste Rodin

“Be water, my friend.” -Bruce Lee

“I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow.” -Heath Ledger

"Fate is fickle; only strength endures." -Yodo-dono

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.” -Louis Daguerre

"The back view is the most profound expression of fatherly love." -Zhu Ziqing

“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message.” -Alphonse Mucha

“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things.” -Katsushika Hokusai

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” -Paul Gauguin

"The revolution has not yet succeeded; comrades, you must continue to strive." -Sun Yat-sen

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” -René Magritte

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” -Andy Warhol

“Let them eat cake.” -Marie Antoinette

"I swear to recover our lost land and will not coexist under the same sky with the Japanese pirates." -Koxinga

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"The subtlety of calligraphy lies in spiritual comprehension, not in forced effort." -Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Respect virtue and protect the people; be cautious in the end and remember the distant past." -Duke of Zhou

“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.” -Amedeo Modigliani

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” -Marcel Duchamp

“The more I see, the more I realize how little I know.” -Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." -Sun Tzu

“I am the face that launched a thousand ships.” -Helen of Troy

"Blood for blood, eye for an eye—we will fight to the end." -Chiang Kai-shek

“Art is what you can get away with.” -Andy Warhol

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” -Vincent van Gogh

“Ether is a blessing to humanity.” -William Morton

"The way of an emperor lies in fairness and impartiality." -Emperor Yongzheng

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” -Edvard Munch

“Creativity takes courage.” -Henri Matisse

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso

"One glance topples a city; another glance topples a nation." -Wang Zhaojun

“The idea came into my mind... that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum.” -James Watt

"With determination, anything is possible." -Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.” -Hannah Höch

“The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality.” -Jean-François Millet

“I have a dream.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

"I would rather die standing than live kneeling." -Soong Mei-ling

“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” -Piet Mondrian

“Art is for everybody.” -Keith Haring

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Under heaven, all belongs to the Emperor." -Emperor Qin Shi Huang

“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.” -Cleopatra

"With strength to move mountains, my spirit fills the world; but fate forsakes me, and my horse won’t gallop." -Xiang Yu

“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.” - Jasper Johns

“Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.” -Georges Seurat

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” -Sir Isaac Newton

"A bronze mirror reflects your attire; a person reflects your flaws." -Emperor Taizong of Tang

“To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits.” -Giorgio de Chirico

“My name is Kurt Schwitters... I nail my pictures together.” -Kurt Schwitters

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” -John F. Kennedy

"Accept refined words and widely seek honest advice." -Empress Wu Zetian

“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” -Nicolaus Copernicus

"Fish sink and geese fall, the moon hides and flowers blush." -Xi Shi

“Art should be independent of all claptrap — should stand alone.” -James McNeill Whistler

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” -Joan Miró

“When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow.” -Franz Schubert

"Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself." -Confucius

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.” -Wassily Kandinsky

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.” -Johannes Vermeer

“Chance favors only the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur

“Color of the flower has already faded away, while in idle thoughts my life passes vainly by.” -Ono no Komachi

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” -Plato

"Righteousness reaching to the clouds." -Guan Yu

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.” -Salvador Dalí

“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”-Salvador Dalí

“If birds can glide for long periods of time, then... why can't I?” -Wright Brothers

"When the brush moves, it startles the wind and rain; when the poem is completed, it makes ghosts and gods weep." -Wang Xizhi

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” -Vincent van Gogh

"Painting is the ultimate form of literature." -Wu Daozi

“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.” -Elvis Presley

"As long as the green hills remain, there will be wood to burn." -Sima Yi

“Simplicity is the final achievement.” -Frédéric Chopin

"Heaven gave me talents, they will be of use; I spend a thousand gold coins, they will come back again." -Li Bai

“Genius is eternal patience.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Light is not only what you see—it’s what makes you see.” -Johannes Vermeer

“And yet it moves.” -Galileo Galilei

"An emperor with great talent and vision, excelling in both civil and military affairs." -Emperor Wu of Han

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.” -Roy Lichtenstein

“I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.” -Jean-Michel Basquiat

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” -Charles Darwin

"Moon hides and flowers blush, fish sink and geese fall." -Diao Chan

“Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it.” -Salvador Dalí

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” -Muhammad Ali

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” -Pablo Picasso

“This is not a pipe.” -René Magritte

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

“In hoc signo vinces.” -Constantine the Great

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” -Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha

“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.” -Elizabeth I

"We cannot wait, because the people cannot wait." -Chiang Ching-kuo

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.” -Johann Sebastian Bach

"The Guangling San is lost forever." -Ji Kang

“When one is painting, one does not think.” -Raphael

“In the wondrous way of calligraphy, spirit is the most important, form comes second. Only by combining both can one succeed the ancients.” -Wang Xizhi

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” -Alexander the Great

"Govern the people with kindness, manage the state with diligence and thrift." -Emperor Qianlong

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” -Thomas Edison

"Victory belongs to those who endure." -Tokugawa Ieyasu

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!” -Audrey Hepburn

"Only through diligence and love for the people can one govern the nation." -Emperor Hongwu

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” -George Washington

“Even if I must die, I will dance.” -Shizuka Gozen

“Art comes from joy and pain. But mostly from pain.” -Edvard Munch

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” -Frida Kahlo

“I paint flowers so they will not die.” -Frida Kahlo

"When the birds are gone, the bow is put away; when the rabbits are dead, the hound is cooked." -Fan Li

“Sleep is for those who are broke. I don't sleep.” -50 Cent

“Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be yourself.” -Snoop Dogg

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle

"Among men, Lü Bu; among horses, Red Hare." -Lü Bu

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” -Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Those who learn from me will live; those who imitate me will die." -Qi Baishi

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -Pablo Picasso 

  “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo da Vinci 

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein

Séraphine (2008) 花落花開 塞拉菲娜·路易

Lust for Life (1956) 梵谷傳 文森·梵谷

Pollock (2000) 波拉克和他的情人 傑克遜·波洛克

Andrey Rublyov (1966) 安德烈·盧布廖夫
Moulin Rouge (1952) 紅磨坊

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) 戴珍珠耳環的少女

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) 新橋戀人

The mill & the cross (2011) 磨坊與十字架

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)美麗壞女人

The best offer (2013) 寂寞拍賣師

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) 痛苦與狂喜

L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) (2002)母親的微笑

The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) 繪圖師的合約

Portrait of Jennie (1948) 倩影淚痕

The Sheltering Sky (1990) 遮蔽的天空

La vie de bohème (1992) 波希米亞生活

Les amants de Montparnasse (1958) 蒙巴爾納斯19號

Mr. Turner (2014) 畫世紀：透納先生
Tony Takitani 東尼瀧谷 (2004)

Akiresu to kame (2008) 阿基里斯與烏龜

Frida (2002) 揮灑烈愛 芙烈達·卡蘿

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