There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

  • -- Asne Seierstad 塞厄斯塔

我不会改变任何东西——要改变它,我必须写一本完全不同的书。

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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

你知道,艺术史的教学方式,往往没有什么能告诉你为什么这幅画是伟大的。对一幅拙劣的画的描述和对一幅伟大的画的描述听起来是一样的。

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

我认为描述存在的东西是无用和乏味的,因为存在的东西都不能满足我。大自然是丑陋的,比起那些微不足道的东西,我更喜欢我想象中的怪物。

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

心胸狭窄、缺乏想象力的小个子男人过着循规蹈矩的生活,沾沾自喜地抵制一切可能会扰乱他们的小天地的变化。

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

人们给了我机密信息,但总是附带着免责声明:“这永远不会成为一本书的结尾。””“从来没有。

When you are stuck in a spiral, to change the aspects of the spin you only need to change one thing.

当你被困在一个螺旋中时,要改变螺旋的各个方面,你只需要改变一件事。

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

我想在我写这本书之前,我已经确定了书名。