Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

  • -- Henri Matisse 亨利·马蒂斯

绘画是一种具有永久性的表现手法。

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No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

没有艺术是好的,除非你能感觉到它是如何组合在一起的。总的来说,是眼睛,手,如果有任何好处,你会感觉到身体。大多数最好的东西似乎是一个完整的姿态,艺术家身体的整体;你真的可以依靠它。

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

法律是一种灵巧的风俗习惯的混合体,这些风俗习惯有益于社会,即使没有法律存在,也可以遵循;而另一些风俗习惯则有利于统治少数人,但对大多数人有害,只能通过恐怖手段强加于他们。

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

我不确定我是否有天生的天赋。我认为这只是因为有些人更容易表达他们的情感,也许是因为他们成长的方式,而我总是善于表达。

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

尽管有种种障碍、挫折和不可能,但坚韧不拔、锲而不舍和坚持不懈,正是这一点使强者区别于弱者。

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

动物在数量、形成速度、持久性、精微性和复杂联想方面的增长在人类身上达到了极致。

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

一个文盲身上有一种说不出的新鲜感和无意识感,它使最高尚的表达天才的力量受到贬低和嘲笑。

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

每当我写关于母亲的事情时——我经常写——我都在利用我作为母亲的经历和我作为女儿的经历。

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

画画是诗人写下来的诗句,是为了看看是否有一个故事值得讲述,一个真理值得揭示。

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

没有固定的政策,因为政策就像所有的有机实体一样,总是在制定之中。

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

每个人都认为拍电影是一件大事,但在过去他们一直都是这样做的。

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

爱自己的人至少有这个优势——他不会遇到很多竞争对手。

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

回顾过去对我们来说是一个相对容易的手势。