You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

  • -- Chuck Close 夹头关闭

你知道,艺术史的教学方式,往往没有什么能告诉你为什么这幅画是伟大的。对一幅拙劣的画的描述和对一幅伟大的画的描述听起来是一样的。

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

活在肉体里比活在灵魂里困难得多。一个人的身体要严格得多:它不会拥有它不会拥有的,没有什么能把苦变成甜。

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

我曾经有一朵玫瑰以我的名字命名,我感到非常荣幸。但我不喜欢读目录上的描述:躺在床上不行,靠在墙上倒挺好。

What really matters is whether the alphabet is used for the declaration of war or for the description of a sunrise.

真正重要的是,字母表是用来宣战还是用来描述日出。

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

由于群众总是急于相信某件事,为了他们的利益,没有什么比事实更容易安排的了。