Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  • -- Ted Lange 泰德·兰格

艺术家应该把自己看作是讲故事的宇宙工具。

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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

一个拥有像眼睛这样敏感的珠宝,像耳朵这样迷人的乐器,像大脑这样神奇的阿拉伯式神经的人,怎么可能体验不到神的存在呢?

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

其他更少的导演更像作曲家——概念化作品,给它打分,把它的音乐线分布在一系列的寄存器、和弦和乐器中。

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

在宇宙的尺度上,我们的生命是微不足道的,然而当我们出现在这个世界上的短暂时期,所有有意义的问题都产生了。

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

我的风格是口语化的讲故事。这是我们互相讲故事的方式——不是写故事,也不是写得过火。

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

我希望我所做的事情有艺术内涵,作为一名艺术家,你必须尝试新事物,让自己开心。

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

艺术家的重要性在于为语言带来新的符号。