That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

无论好坏,那种可怕的沮丧情绪就是我们所知的艺术家的奖赏。

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Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

因为现在很难意识到那就是大萧条的结束。突然间,这一切都摆在我面前,我有偿还能力了。我赚了一些钱,我知道下一顿饭从哪里来,我有一双新鞋,就是这样。

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

有时我觉得我被迫退回到抑郁中去,因为这是我唯一可以向这个世界提出的合理抗议,这个世界说,人们可以随心所欲地来去自如,根本没有什么真正的义务留下。

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

这位商人说,如果我不先做,其他人就会做。这位艺术家说:“如果我不先做,别人也不会。”