Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

每一幅有感情的画像都是艺术家的画像,而不是模特的画像。

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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

当你从一幅肖像开始,通过连续的消除,寻找一个纯粹的形式,一个清晰的体积,你不可避免地会到达鸡蛋。同样地,从鸡蛋开始,按照同样的过程反过来,一个人以肖像结束。

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

颜色拥有我。我不需要追求它。我知道,它将永远占据我。这就是这个欢乐时刻的意义:我和颜色是一体的。我是一个画家。

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

艺术家的主要区别在于,他必须积极地培养大多数人必须避免的那种状态;孤独的状态。

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

艺术家手中的视觉形象只是一种触发心理形象的工具。

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

当你专业地拍摄肖像时,这不是一种欲望,而是为了钱。

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

没有人能成为画家,除非他把绘画放在首位。