A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
摘要
Abstract
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
我想成为一名抽象画家，但我做得很糟。
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
这个世界越恐怖，艺术就越抽象。
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
对于那些厌倦了政治的人来说，只剩下抽象的思想。
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
把一幅抽象画想象成非常非常低的浮雕——一件东西，而不是一幅画。
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
在普遍错误的抽象概念中，一切具体的责任都消失了。
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
没有任何抽象概念比永恒和平更接近于实现的乌托邦。
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
没有抽象的艺术。你必须从某件事开始。之后你就可以移除所有的现实痕迹。
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
我的意思是，我发现现实生活中发生的事情是最有趣的——你知道，这些事情是你观察到的，而不是疯狂抽象的东西。
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
我们都渴望得到具体的形象。抽象艺术有一件事是有好处的:把它真正的童贞恢复到具象艺术。
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
我觉得我们比以前聪明多了。每个人都知道抽象艺术可以是艺术，大多数人知道他们可能不喜欢它，即使他们知道它还有另一个目的。
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
我喜欢保留一些原始的抽象思想，因为问题是，当你拿起笔的时候，你会变成一个势利小人，一个更糟糕的批评家。你以一种非创造性的方式编辑自己。
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
当我在学校画抽象画的时候，和其他人一样，老师说这些画可以做成很好的窗帘。我总是会忽略使用颜色的形式，因为颜色对我来说很自然。