Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

  • -- John Ciardi 约翰·西阿迪

现代艺术是当画家不再看着女孩,而是说服自己他们有更好的主意时所发生的事情。

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The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

“机器装配”这个概念对我的感觉特别陌生,因为它暗示了在建造过程中地层之间相对无关紧要。

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

你的生活不是由生活带给你什么决定的,而是由你对生活的态度决定的;与其说是发生在你身上的事情,不如说是你的大脑看待事情的方式。

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

完全不是这样;他们在自己的房子和棚子里做所有这些事情,用普通的炭火和一些稻草堵住门窗的缝隙。

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

今天的画家不必去研究他们自己以外的主题。大多数现代画家的作品来源不同。他们从内部工作。

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

我认为阿富汗妇女的解放必须来自内部,通过阿富汗人自己,逐步地,随着时间的推移。

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.

已经发生的事情已经发生了,所以我们能做些什么来让明天和后天变得更好呢?这就是我们来这里的原因。

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

我的数学从来没有学好过——我似乎从来没有说服老师我的答案不是字面意思。

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

我认为我的原则不会改变。我认为,你将这些原则应用于现代社会的方式发生了变化。

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

我想创造高尚的艺术。成功的形象有形象的提升。我在找上面的东西。

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

对于印象派画家来说,从自然中绘画并不是为了描绘主题,而是为了实现感觉。

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

一个国家打现代战争的能力和它的技术能力一样好。

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

我看着他是因为我想在死后看着别人的眼睛。

Maybe it's true that i can't live without you, maybe two is better than one.

也许没有你我活不下去是真的,也许两个总比一个好。

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

我们承认自己的小错误是为了让人们相信我们没有大错误。

The question isn't who is going to let you; it's who is going to stop you.

问题不在于谁会让你这么做;是谁来阻止你。

If i like you alot, i'll get jealous when you talk to other girls.

如果我很喜欢你,当你和其他女孩说话的时候,我会嫉妒的。

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

有很多地方,真的,是这个想法开始的地方。

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

我认为读者应该在小说中遇到他们自己。

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

但我认为最终男孩比女孩更容易。

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

无论发生什么,都要承担责任。