My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

  • -- Gyorgy Ligeti 李盖蒂

我的祖父不是一个音乐家,但他是一个艺术家——一个画家,一个装饰画家。

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

如果让我简单地定义一下艺术这个词,我应该把它叫做“透过灵魂的面纱,感官在自然中感知到的东西的再现”。“仅仅是对自然界的模仿,无论多么准确,都不能赋予人‘艺术家’的神圣称号。”

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

乐施会与我接触,邀请我作为他们的大使前往马里,参与他们在那里提出的各种倡议。但我觉得,作为一名音乐家,这样做没有意义。

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

艺术家越高,手势就越少。工具越少,想象力就越大。意志越大,失败的秘密就越大。

You can't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash.

如果你不准备坠机,你就学不会飞。