Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

  • -- Vincent van Gogh 文森特·梵高

绘画有自己的生命,它来自画家的灵魂。

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

当我完成一幅画的时候,我拿着一些上帝创造的东西——一块石头,一朵花,一棵树的树枝或者我的手——作为最后的测试。如果这幅画站在一个人无法创造的东西旁边,这幅画就是真迹。如果两者之间有冲突,那就是糟糕的艺术。

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

几乎无法解决的任务是,既不让他人的力量,也不让我们自己的无能为力使我们麻木。

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

博物馆里的一幅画听到的荒谬言论比世界上任何东西都多。

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

通过我们自己恢复的纯真,我们辨别出我们邻居的纯真。