I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

  • -- Keith Haring 基思·哈林

我对人们选择的形状作为他们创造语言的符号很感兴趣。在所有的形式中都有一个基本的结构,用最少的线条表示整个对象,成为一个符号。这对所有的语言、所有的人、所有的时间都是一样的。

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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

就好像所有这些语言都是可用的,尤其是在图像方面。为什么只局限于英语?所有这些语言,各种可能性和概念都是可以交流的。

I can arrange all of these little symbols together to invoke emotions and ideas at a whim out of whosoever allows me to cast my spell. It does not take a man and a woman to create. It just takes a writer.

我可以把所有这些小符号组合在一起,在任何一个允许我施展魔法的人的心血来潮中激发情感和想法。它不需要一个男人和一个女人去创造。只需要一个作家。

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

英语和法语中缺乏简单性的这些例子,表面上都相反,几乎可以无限地增加,并适用于所有的民族语言。

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon’s time; but they are all unmourned and unknown, covered by the long night, because they lack their sacred poet.

许多勇敢的人生活在阿伽门农之前;但是他们都没有悲伤,默默无闻,被漫漫长夜所笼罩,因为他们缺少他们神圣的诗人。

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

智人是这样一种物种,他们发明符号来投入激情和权威,然后忘记符号是一种发明。

I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.

我慢慢来。我感到更加自信,每天我都感觉自己在变好。