Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  • -- Jerry Saltz 杰瑞·萨特茨

抽象将世界带入更复杂、更多变的关系中;它可以从看似虚无的事物中提取美、另类的地形、丑和强烈的现实。

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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

在许多形式的错误文化中,过早地与抽象概念进行对话,很可能对男性智力活力的成长造成致命的影响。

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

我花了很长时间才成为现在的我,所有的丑陋都消失了。腐烂的肉不见了,种子还在。我现在可以摸了。

The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.

世界是个骗子。它的丑陋是压倒性的;美丽的碎片使它变得更糟。

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

抽象是真实的,可能比自然更真实。