Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  • -- Marshall McLuhan 麦克卢汉

伟大的艺术讲的是每一个聪明人都能理解的语言。今天自称现代主义者的人说的是另一种语言。

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No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

至少在西方世界,没有一种重要的民族语言具有完整的语法结构规律性,也没有一种逻辑范畴在语言象征意义上得到充分而一致的处理。

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

我们做得越大,我认为它改变的东西就越多,这很好,但我们并没有打算这么做。我们只是想尽可能地做大。

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

真正的雄辩在于说一切必要的话,而不在于说什么,而在于说什么是必要的。

I'm not a great writer.

我不是一个伟大的作家。