A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
艺术家
Artist
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
艺术家必须自由选择他所做的，当然，但他也必须永远不害怕做他可能选择的。
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
一个杂货商被一种磁力吸引到他的生意中来，这种磁力和使艺术家厌恶的排斥力一样大。
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
这就是艺术家的头衔的意思:一个比他的同伴看得更多的人，一个比他看到的记录得更多的人。
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
艺术家会受到流行文化的推崇，这一概念直接否定了他作为艺术家的重要性。
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
我想，如果你认真对待自己作为一个艺术家，要么开始问题或美丽的做好艺术品。
As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
作为一个新艺术家——我不在乎你和谁交谈——我想每个人都会同意，你很难达到自己的期望。
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
但在某种程度上，如果你想成为一名相关的艺术家，你必须发挥自己的影响力，找到自己的声音。
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
我是一个可怕的视觉艺术家。我不会修车、缝纫、编织、做饭等。从数据上看，我不做的事情比我做的还多。
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
艺术家不需要知道太多;最重要的是，让他本能地工作，像呼吸或走路一样自然地画画。
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
我是一个艺术家，没有权利摆弄动词和分裂不定式，这就是作家对我说的话。
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
我一直在做东西。虽然我每天都在做艺术，但我从来没有想过我会成为一名艺术家。
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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
我是一个艺术家…我来这里是为了大声的活出来。
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
当太阳落山时，艺术家的工作就是创造阳光。
I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
我是一个艺术家，所以我认为我对人类的痛苦很敏感。
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。
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
如果这是艺术家的标志，爱艺术先于一切，放弃一切，为艺术而放弃一切，认为只要他能得到一些东西，做一些好事，伟大的工作，生活中所有美好的东西就会失去，那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
小艺术家借，大艺术家偷。