Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

  • -- Edward Hall 爱德华·霍尔

人类习惯了这样一个事实:有些语言是他一开始不懂的,而且必须学习,但因为艺术主要是视觉的,他希望自己应该立即得到信息,如果他不懂,就很容易被冒犯。

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I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

我对人们选择的形状作为他们创造语言的符号很感兴趣。在所有的形式中都有一个基本的结构,用最少的线条表示整个对象,成为一个符号。这对所有的语言、所有的人、所有的时间都是一样的。

You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

你知道,我觉得做一个……事实上,很少有人知道大多数主演都有他们从未想过的背景,而且他们也确实演过这部剧。

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

当你和德古拉打交道时,你总是需要注意的一点是,他的黑暗中有某种吸引人的东西——这是其他恐怖角色所没有的。

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

如果艺术中固有的困难能给人以灵感,那么人就是诗人;如果他们剥夺了他的思想,他就不是诗人。

People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.

人们知道两种语言:母语和胡言乱语。

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

成为一个男人是多么艰难,多么痛苦啊!