Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

照片:没有艺术指导的太阳画的画。

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If you play certain parts, you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business. It shouldn't inform what you do. But there's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent.

如果你扮演某些角色,你就会有一张漂亮的脸,然后你就会觉得你有责任让自己变得漂亮。我讨厌我们之间的事。它不应该告诉你做什么。但外表和才能之间存在着一种明显的负相关关系。

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

我不认为哀叹世界现状有什么意义,除非你能想出什么办法来改善它。否则,就不要写书了;去找一个热带岛屿,躺在阳光下。

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

当然,如果知识是有价值的,那么在一个远比托斯卡纳富裕的国家里,允许像道尔顿这样的天才从事基础教育的苦差事,绝不可能是一个好的政策。

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

作为一个剧作家,你可以覆盖很多海滨地区,而不需要在这些领域与专家抗衡。我对此并不抱有幻想。

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

在那之前,我想成为一名杂志插画家——我可能会画哥特式的场景。

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

他们有这么多拉丁球员,我们得请一位拉丁教练上来。

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

我的肖像更多的是关于我自己,而不是我所拍摄的人。

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

让那些没有你可能永远不会被看到的东西变得可见。

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

把你的脸转向太阳,阴影就会落在你身后。

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

你不需要拍照,你要拍。