Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

在任何事情上追求完美的艺术家,在任何事情上都无法达到完美。

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

在每个人的生活中,总有那么一段时间,我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后,它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

现在名声和耻辱没有区别了。现在有一群不做任何事的专业名人。他们不创造任何东西。

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

我们成功的企业,需要我们所拥有的积极的品质,但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.

我从来没有做过任何事情。有人问我是否做过隆胸手术。不管我做不做,这不关别人的事,而是我自己的事。

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

我无法告诉你有多少人,有权势的人,来到我的工作室,他们为所看到的一切感动得流泪。

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

找到能激起你兴趣和热情的东西并不容易。这一点你必须自己去寻找。

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

青春是人生所有欢乐的季节;但往往只看它希望什么,而不看它得到了什么,或它逃避了什么。

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

也就是说,一个创作了大量作品的艺术家可能会经历多产的日子和缓慢的日子。

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

一个人的意义不在于他得到了什么,而在于他渴望得到什么。

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

不要向外求好处,要向内求,不然,永远找不到。

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

在棒球运动中,我一直控制着一切,直到我把球放开。

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

今天的世界没有意义,为什么我要画这样的画呢?

Everything is dead while it lives.

万物活着的时候都是死的。