To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

  • -- Alexander Calder 亚历山大考尔德

对一个工程师来说,足够好意味着完美。对于一个艺术家来说,没有什么是完美的。

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I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

我想成为一个完美的艺术家。我每天要做三个小时的媒体采访,去每一个我能挤进去的电台。演出结束后我会给大家签名,直到所有人都离开。

I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.

我认为生活也会踢你的裤子,但你必须振作起来,继续前进,如果你有一个好的伴侣,这肯定会有帮助。

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

当火车穿过隧道时,天黑了,你不会扔掉车票就跳下车。你会静静地坐着,相信工程师。

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。”

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

有意识并不仅仅意味着存在,而是被报道,被了解,意识到自己被添加到存在中。

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

传统艺术是创造而不是复兴。复兴:留给历史学家吧,他们正在回顾历史。

When a good thing goes bad, It's not the end of the world, It's just the end of a world that you had with one girl.

当一件好事变坏,这不是世界末日,这只是你和一个女孩的世界末日。

Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.

我们大多数人宁愿声称自己一直很完美,也不愿承认自己已经成长了多少。

I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

我是天秤座。这意味着我可以做一个决定,但只有经过深思熟虑。

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

任何东西喝得太多都是不好的,但喝得太多的好威士忌还不够。

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

我科学地设计我的音乐,使之尽可能地易于理解。

It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

它不需要成为第一秀,它只需要是好的。

Before you fall for a guy make sure he's man enough to catch you.

在你爱上一个男人之前,确保他足够有男子气概来抓住你。

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

世上没有不劳而获的事。