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。

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

但是当我画一幅画的时候,我会从一幅画开始画,但是我会在画中加入一些我非常确定我想要的东西,然后用印刷的点或彩纸在画上拼贴,在我真正投入之前。

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

每当一个学生经过一幢属于他的学院的非常紧急、富有表现力的建筑时,它都能帮助他确信,他确实有那样的头脑,有那样的灵魂。

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。

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

的确,正如上面的计算所示,为了充分利用可用的内存空间,最终的笔记本电脑必须将所有的物质转化为能量。

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

很少有人敢否认节制在提高一个处于战争状态的国家的效率方面的好处。

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

有时候,我非常沮丧,只能画一幅画。

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

没有什么比相信自己是美丽的女人更美丽的了。

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

我对经常做手势的售票员有很大的意见。