But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

  • -- George Haven Putnam 乔治黑文普特南

但你说你是保守的——非常保守——而我们是革命性的、破坏性的,或诸如此类的东西。保守主义是什么?它不是坚持旧的和尝试过的,反对新的和未经尝试的吗?

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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

欧洲传统中的大多数绘画都是画面具。现代艺术拒绝了这一切。我们的主题是面具背后的人。

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

正是在革命时期,出现了以前趋势的顶峰和新趋势的开始。

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

保守的观点是,经济就像天气一样,是自动运行的。

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

就像憎恨一样,嫉妒是被生活的法则所禁止的,因为它本质上是破坏性的。

Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.

传统必须是通向未来的跳板,而不是安乐椅。

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

保守的人是胆小到不敢打,又胖到不能跑的人。

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

最具破坏性的批评是漠不关心。

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

革命始于自我,始于自我。