I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

  • -- Brad Holland 布拉德·霍兰德

我一直不明白,为什么艺术家们总是屈尊于自己文化的陈词滥调,却如此渴望接受自己一无所知的文化的陈词滥调。

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I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

我不会再抱着这种失败主义的态度去听那些除了世界末日什么都不能预测的人说的废话了。

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

雕刻家或画家经常谈论或写他的作品是错误的。这释放了他工作所需要的紧张情绪。

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

我们所谓的开始往往是结束。结束就是开始。我们从终点开始。

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

我信靠神,他的道与我们的道不同。所以我们不得不这么做,对此我无能为力。