Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

  • -- Robert E. Howard 罗伯特·霍华德

然而,从事一种与自己命运攸关的人民完全陌生的职业并不是一件轻松的事;这个职业就像欧洲海岸一样模糊、遥远、虚幻。

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Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

也许只是,我总是去人迹罕至的地方,在任何话题上,无论是历史,我总是喜欢选择最模糊的话题。我不知道我为什么会有这种冲动。我真的无法解释,但我从很小的时候就开始这么做了。

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

我对商业艺术中通常被认为是最糟糕的方面感兴趣。我认为这是一种张力,在似乎如此刻板和陈词滥调和艺术真的不可能这样的事实之间。

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

如果我被打扰了,这只是一个小小的不便,但不是一场灾难,因为它很容易回到我原来的位置:也就是说,油漆没有改变一致性;光线没有移动。

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

如果你想走得又远又快,那就轻装上阵吧。除去你所有的嫉妒、嫉妒、不宽恕、自私和恐惧。

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

人们总是说生命是短暂的。我从来都不相信这一点——我的似乎有一种没完没了的倾向。

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

指挥就是服务,不多也不少。