Cai Zhizhong: A lot of people think that he's just a little bit unlucky, he just didn't meet the nobles, he didn't meet the opportunity, he was actually similar to me - it's not like that.
I work 16 hours a day, but I don't feel like work. I can sit in a chair for 58 hours just to accomplish something; I can close the house for 42 days without opening the door, just to complete a thing; I can go to Japan for 4 years, that is, to paint a hundred houses (not to change money, almost finish painting before coming back to publish). So the reward of painting is the painting itself. Being like having money and being famous is a side effect, not a pursuit per se.
In fact, a person doesn't really need much, there is a place to sleep, there is something to eat without going hungry, and then completely do what he wants to do. When you go all out to do something, there is nothing unsuccessful.
Sabine: As long as your inner world is free and rich, so that you can enjoy it the most, everything around you doesn't matter. When you do enough, as Teacher Cai said, he will draw 5,000 drafts for a book, but in the end he may receive only 100 in the book, and the remaining 4900 may not be seen by us, but when he draws the 4900 paintings, it is a kind of enjoyment rather than tribulation. When you enter this realm, you will definitely be able to achieve it.
Cai Zhizhong: If we don't jump into the fire and die once, how can we turn into a phoenix and fly out?
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