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艺术家
Artist
A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
孩子对一切事物的态度就是艺术家的态度。
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
我首先是个行为艺术家;我是第二名录音艺术家。
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
艺术家使事物具体化并赋予它们个性。
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。
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
艺术家是一个愿意梦想现实世界的梦想家。
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
我很自私，但这是所有艺术家都有的特质。
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
我们吃掉艺术家，就好像最后会有一场饥荒。
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
生气甚至是愉快的。但只有疯子才明白这一点。
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
艺术家的定义功能是珍惜意识。
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
幅画是自我发现。每个优秀的艺术家都画出他自己。
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
如果一个艺术家谴责平庸，他将无法超越平庸。
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
艺术家从来没有真正完成他的作品，他只是放弃了它。
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
艺术家就是那些创造出人们不需要的东西的人。
Every child is an artist the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
每一个孩子都是艺术家问题是当你长大后，你要一直做一个艺术家。
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我最想做的就是成为一名小说家。如果你告诉我长大后要当艺术家或小说家，我会当面笑话你。
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
我甚至不喜欢谈论它。我讨厌成为一个数字，不仅仅是因为我是一个非常小的数字。我让他们对我吼叫，直到我找到足够的勇气对他们吼叫为止。
All any artist can do is please themselves.
任何艺术家所能做的就是取悦自己。
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
艺术家总是孤独的——如果他是艺术家的话。不，艺术家需要的是孤独。