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艺术家
Artist
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。
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.
但是一些伟大的记录是用今天的技术创造的，我们当中仍然有伟大的艺术家。同样，今天也有一些艺术家如此依赖现代技术，如果唱片更加有机，他们也不会出现。
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.
生活得很好是我最大的快乐，即使它给我带来很大的压力。艺术家创作了一件伟大的艺术作品后，会感到疲倦而自豪。所以这是一个演员谁真的生活在一个伟大的角色，并为他所扮演的角色感到自豪。
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.
你会有这样一种感觉，在很多日子里，大多数音乐的观众都不愿意面对艺术家，尤其是因为我们被教育去认为艺术家是这些特殊的生物是其他的，不像我们。
It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
如果你是一个好的歌手和作曲家，你应该有自己的位置。你让每个人都试图释放最漂亮的家伙，但这并不意味着他们是最好的艺术家。大多数时候，真正的艺术家只是普通的老家伙。
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
我认为所有这些艺术家都是被欣赏的艺术家，因为你相信他们的话，你欣赏他们在音乐中的诚实。如果你不欣赏音乐中的诚实，节奏可以飞得像地狱，但你永远不会给主持人道具。
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
艺术媒介一词的使用，至少可以说是误导人的，因为创造艺术作品的是艺术家而不是媒介。摄影艺术家通过对思想、思想、经验、洞见和理解的升华，赋予内容以形式。
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
如果让我简单地定义一下艺术这个词，我应该把它叫做“透过灵魂的面纱，感官在自然中感知到的东西的再现”。“仅仅是对自然界的模仿，无论多么准确，都不能赋予人‘艺术家’的神圣称号。”
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
许多艺术世界主义者对艺术都有一种“如果你这么说”的态度:每个人都非常害怕错过下一个热门艺术家，以至于永远不清楚人们喜欢工作是因为他们喜欢它，还是因为其他人喜欢它。每个人都在攀比，而攀比的人比以往任何时候都多。
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
无论如何总是作为一个艺术家,你想做什么,你想要连接到的观众,你希望能够发送的任何消息,你唱,你希望能够传达——而不是让他们觉得——你想让他们感觉它,你想让他们感受你的感受。
Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.
有趣的是，在我成长为一个男人之前，我已经是一个成熟的音乐家和艺术家了。我的意思是，当我用我的媒介来表达我自己的时候，我准备好了完全的脆弱和诚实。但在做自己的时候，我就没有那么安全了。
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
没有艺术家不知道危险，就没有伟大的艺术。
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
每一幅有感情的画像都是艺术家的画像，而不是模特的画像。
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
作为一名时装设计师，我一直意识到自己不是一名艺术家，因为我创作的东西是用来销售、营销、使用，最终被丢弃的。
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
即使是一个真正的艺术家也不总是能创造艺术。
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
经验是最好的老师。对于这一点，并不能保证一个人会成为艺术家。只有旅行才重要。
A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.
一个泡良族给了我一个很好的建议:在一段关系中最重要的三件事是诚实、信任和尊重，如果你没有这些，你就没有爱。