If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

  • -- Ellen Terry 爱伦·泰瑞

如果这是艺术家的标志,爱艺术先于一切,放弃一切,为艺术而放弃一切,认为只要他能得到一些东西,做一些好事,伟大的工作,生活中所有美好的东西就会失去,那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。

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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

如果我们认为她受人类文化的限制,我们就不可能理解教会。因为她本质上是一个超自然的有机体,它超越了人类文化,并将其转化为自己的目的。

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

人类进化的决定性时刻是永恒的。这就是为什么那些宣称过去的一切都是毫无价值的革命精神运动是正确的,因为还没有发生任何事情。

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

不认为。思考是创造力的敌人。这是一种自我意识,任何自我意识的东西都是糟糕的。你不能试着去做事。你只是必须做一些事情。

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质,可能会烧灼到你自己的手指,使它们在质量上死去。

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

艺术家在任何时候的任务都是毫不妥协的简单,去发现尚未完成的事情,然后去做。

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

我的唱片公司对待我就像对待一个新艺术家一样,这让我很兴奋。