The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

-- Henri Cartier-Bresson 布列松

这种创造性的行为只持续了很短的一段时间，就像闪电一样的给予和接受，这段时间刚好够你把相机调平，把稍纵即逝的猎物困在你的小盒子里。

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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

我们所做的一切都是为了改变意识。我们建立友谊是为了能够感受到某些特定的情感，比如爱，避免其他人，比如孤独。我们吃特定的食物是为了享受它们在我们舌头上短暂的存在。我们读书的乐趣在于思考别人的想法。

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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

我父母之间的关系真的很可怕。我的意思是，他们的仇恨程度，身体虐待的程度——基本上，我的母亲会打我的父亲——我认为我被电视上那些明亮而发人深醒的画面所吸引。

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A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

街头暴徒和职业杀手都是职业杀手——如果你愿意，可以说是食肉动物，它们已经脱离了人类，现在可以像钓鳟鱼的渔民那样看待人类。

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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

在某种程度上，这对我来说是一种帮助，因为我对一位特定的诗人怀有极大的激情——有时这种激情会持续很多年，有时只会持续一段时间。每个人都会这样。

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In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

为了让喜剧变得有趣，你必须表现出真实的一面。但如果你对角色的基础不完全诚实，那就不会有趣。

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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

孤独，虽然像光一样沉默，却像光一样，是最强大的中介;因为独处对人是必不可少的。所有的人都是独自来到这个世界上，然后离开它。

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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

没有什么好东西是突然冒出来的。闪电可以从乌云中射出;但这一天却把祂光明的使者送到祂面前，使世界为祂的来临做好准备。

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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里，有一段短暂的时间，某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。

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I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I don't know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.

我在午餐会上;一些摄像机对准了我们。我不知道它们是不是为电视制作的。你知道我对相机知之甚少。

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For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

因为你们尝过飞行的滋味，就必在地上行走，举目向天，因为你们曾在那里，也必盼望归回。

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There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

只要不使用破坏性的手段，想要获得工作报酬，或寻求收入最大化都没有错。

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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

你爬得越高，允许你犯的错误就越多。在顶部，如果你做的足够多，它就被认为是你的风格。

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I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

我认为音乐将会以数学的方式被创造出来，我们所做的一切将会被浓缩成一个小小的电脑程序。

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I got that one pitch up to Howard. I didn't get in enough. I know I could blow him up if I get the ball in, but I didn't.

我把球投给霍华德了。我进得不够多。我知道如果我把球打进来，我可以把他炸飞，但我没有。

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If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

如果我打不出高水平的球，我就不会打球，我知道我的身体将无法做到这一点。

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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

有史以来最聪明的人的哲学，主要来自于反省的行为。

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I'm sensitive, I over think every little thing and i care way more than i should.

我很敏感，我对每一件小事都想得太多，我比我应该关心的更多。

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

什么是艺术?它是人类创造性灵魂对现实召唤的回应。

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I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

我知道，要对抗强大的消费力量是多么困难。

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

摄影需要瞬间的时间，通过静止来改变生活。

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If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

如果你看到一条蛇，就杀了它——不要给蛇设立委员会。

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I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

我从来没有做过盒装，如果艾迪不这么说的话，他就会满嘴胡言乱语。

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I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

我不喜欢相机欺骗，编辑，复制等等。

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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

如果现在真的是我们所拥有的一切，那么现在就是永远。

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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

威尼斯就像一口气吃掉一整盒巧克力利口酒。

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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

让你富有的不是你的薪水，而是你的消费习惯。

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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

驱动创造性的人的是我们看到的一切。

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But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

但当我有一个球在我的脚，我很高兴。

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No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

任何善意的行为，无论多么小，都不会被浪费。

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When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

说到底，我只想工作。

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I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

我努力简洁，但我变得晦涩。

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What's in your soul is in your soul.

你灵魂里的东西就在你的灵魂里。

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An old rat won't go into the trap.

老老鼠不会上这个圈套。

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There are no instant solutions.

没有立竿见影的解决办法。

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

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