I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  • -- Steven Pinker 史蒂文·平克

我认为这种困惑使知识分子和艺术家们自己相信,精英艺术和人文是人类努力的一种更高、更崇高的形式。

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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

我总是对那些在他们的领域里是艺术家的人感到敬畏——他们明白,只要把想法转化为现实,他们就能在这个世界上创造价值。

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

艺术家可以把天空涂成红色,因为他们知道它是蓝色的。我们这些不是艺术家的人必须按照事物的本来面目来着色,否则人们会认为我们很愚蠢。

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

符号与客体的混淆是与词同时期的原罪。

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

我不会回头看。这是令人困惑的。