Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

绘画,n。字体保护平坦表面不受天气影响,并将其暴露给评论家的艺术。

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Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

为你自己而写,而不是为你的听众而写。如果你这样做了,你就会一败涂地,因为你无法判断人们想要什么。你必须阅读。这就是你如何学习什么是好的写作,什么是坏的。然后主要是应用。这是艰苦的工作。

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

如果有学生想知道在哪里学习绘画,你会建议去某个地方,但是没有地方。我不知道把学生送到哪里去学习。

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

女人一直都很勇敢……他们在保护自己的孩子时总是无所畏惧,在上个世纪他们在争取自己权利的斗争中是无所畏惧的。

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

我认为我是一个完整的球员。我能在所有的场地上都打得很好。对我来说,粘土可能是最简单的,但我不是粘土方面的专家。

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

绘画是盲人的职业。他画的不是他所看到的,而是他的感觉,他告诉自己他所看到的。

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

我为研究动荡而开发的技术,比如天气,也适用于股市。

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

他表现得像一只鸵鸟,把头埋在沙子里,露出了他的思考部分。

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

如果开设一个自由主义的新闻频道,它将会彻底失败。

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

目前保护国民保健制度病人的制度有点混乱。

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

批评家应该描述,而不是规定。

I've always been fascinated by weather.

我一直对天气很着迷。

Critics should find meaningful work.

批评家应该找到有意义的工作。