I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

  • -- Jenny Holzer 霍尔泽

我想成为一名抽象画家,但我做得很糟。

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I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

我喜欢保留一些原始的抽象思想,因为问题是,当你拿起笔的时候,你会变成一个势利小人,一个更糟糕的批评家。你以一种非创造性的方式编辑自己。

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

我觉得我们比以前聪明多了。每个人都知道抽象艺术可以是艺术,大多数人知道他们可能不喜欢它,即使他们知道它还有另一个目的。

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

时间从画家的作品中提取各种价值。当这些价值被耗尽时,图片就会被遗忘,而一张图片所能提供的东西越多,它就会变得越大。

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

画家构造,摄影师透露。