With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

有了这种体验的壮丽感和它可怕的简练感,把我们所有的一切都集中到一个绝望的努力去看和触摸,我们将几乎没有时间对我们所看到和触摸的事物做出理论。

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I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

我毫无例外地相信理论遵循实践。当理论和实践发生冲突时,理论就是错误的。就我而言,我们为人们所做的事情做理论。

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

这位艺术家抛弃了所有的理论,包括他自己的理论和别人的理论。当他在画布前时,他忘记了一切。

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

我花了六七年的时间写一些非常小的书。有一种简洁的美学。

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

我只是一个廉价的小明星,几乎没有在一部平庸的电影中表演。

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

人类甚至认不出自己创造的恶魔。

Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once.

量你的布十次,你只能剪一次。

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

美好的事物在短暂的时候是双倍的美好。

You can just fight one man at a time.

你一次只能对付一个人。