The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

  • -- Ethel Barrymore 埃塞尔·巴里摩尔

艺术不只是瞬间的快乐——如果你不喜欢它,艺术家就错了。我属于那一代人,他们说如果你不喜欢它,你就不明白,你应该去发现。

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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

如果这是艺术家的标志,爱艺术先于一切,放弃一切,为艺术而放弃一切,认为只要他能得到一些东西,做一些好事,伟大的工作,生活中所有美好的东西就会失去,那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

任何没有自己的内心世界去翻译的人都不是艺术家。