When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  • -- Pablo Picasso 毕加索

当你从一幅肖像开始,通过连续的消除,寻找一个纯粹的形式,一个清晰的体积,你不可避免地会到达鸡蛋。同样地,从鸡蛋开始,按照同样的过程反过来,一个人以肖像结束。

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

很少有人能从瞬间的光照中获得完整而惊人的真理。他们中的大多数人都是通过细胞的连续发展,在小范围内,一个片段一个片段地获得它,就像一个费力的马赛克。

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

就像一个跑步者的成千上万个连续的姿势被压缩成一个唯一的象征性姿态,我们的眼睛可以感知到,艺术可以复制,对每个人来说,这就变成了一个跑步者的形象。

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

有些人总是批评含糊不清的陈述。我倾向于对精确的陈述持批评态度;他们是唯一可以正确地贴上“错误”标签的人。

Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more.

有你爱的人在你身边,和他们一起组建家庭,这是你一生中最美好的事情。你不能要求更多了。

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

我无法想象仅仅为了出名而出名。我认为名声应该和成功,才能一起来。

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

他们应该像画金翅雀那样把画家的眼睛挖出来,这样他们才能唱得更好。

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

高管是这样的人,他总是做出决定,有时他的决定是正确的,但他总是做出决定。

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

我的腿是铁制的,但是跟你说实话,它们开始生锈了,而且有点弯。

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

衡量成功的真正标准是你能从失败中恢复多少次。

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

当你专业地拍摄肖像时,这不是一种欲望,而是为了钱。

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

我宁愿画一幅微型画,也不愿画一本书中的泰姬陵。

Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.

宁可今天生蛋,不要明天生母鸡。