A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
艺术家
Artist
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
这位艺术家是一个不能支付他的闲暇费用的悠闲阶层的成员。
As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
作为一名艺术家，我理解这一点，我重视艺术家的创造性投入。
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
艺术家在任何媒介上的首要特权都是出洋相。
Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
作为一名流行歌手，或者像歌曲一样创作音乐——我不会那样做。
I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.
我想成为一个每个人都能感同身受的艺术家，年轻、快乐、有趣。
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
也许在某种意义上，所有的艺术家都是家庭主妇:地球家庭的看护者。
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
将光明射入人类心灵的黑暗之中——这是艺术家的职责。
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
每个孩子都是艺术家。问题是一旦我们长大了，如何保持艺术家的身份。
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
艺术家应该把自己看作是讲故事的宇宙工具。
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.
所有的孩子都是艺术家。问题是一旦你长大了如何保持艺术家的身份。
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
艺术家手中的视觉形象只是一种触发心理形象的工具。
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
艺术家的每一个作品都应该是他灵魂冒险的表现。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.
作为一个艺术家和一个人，我需要被推动。
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
没有伟大的艺术家能看到事物的本来面目。如果他这样做了，他就不再是艺术家了。
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
艺术家是情感的容器，情感来自四面八方:来自天空，来自大地，来自一张纸片，来自一个路过的形状，来自一张蜘蛛网。
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
现在作为一个艺术家，我想做的是成为作品中不可忽视的一部分。老实说，我对人们如何接受它一点也不感兴趣。只要它是不可忽视的。
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
艺术家不能失败;成为这样的人是成功的。
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
艺术家是他的幻想和世界其他地方之间的媒介。