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画家
Painter
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
最好的开场白是这样说的:巴尔蒂斯是一位默默无闻的画家。现在让我们来看看他的画。
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
就画家的气质而言，所需要的只是一种足以让大众理解的表达方式。
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
雕刻家或画家经常谈论或写他的作品是错误的。这释放了他工作所需要的紧张情绪。
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
如果一个画家觉得有义务把他的作品描绘成统一的美丽或英俊，而且没有瑕疵，那么他就不能成为艺术家。
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
妈妈对我说:“如果你是一名士兵，你就会成为一名将军。”如果你是个和尚，你就会成为教皇。”相反，我是个画家，后来成了毕加索。
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
时间从画家的作品中提取各种价值。当这些价值被耗尽时，图片就会被遗忘，而一张图片所能提供的东西越多，它就会变得越大。
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
我只是个风景画家。我往窗外看，我看到发生了什么，我画了它。当我在画画的时候，我也会写下我看到的事情。
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
我想我一直害怕绘画，真的。从一开始。我所有的画都是关于没有画家的绘画。就像一种机械的绘画形式。
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
我从这个开始:我完全没有画过我的童年。事实上，我从不画画。但是我帮助了我的父亲，他是一个房屋画家和装饰画家。他做舞台布景，他做玻璃画，他什么都做。
The highest, the most logical, the purest and strongest form of painting is the mural... It is, too, the most disinterested form, for it cannot be made a matter of private gain; it cannot be hidden away for the benefit of a certain privileged few. It is for the people. It is for ALL.
最高、最合乎逻辑、最纯粹、最有力的绘画形式是壁画。它也是最无私的形式，因为它不能成为一种私人利益;它不能为了某些特权少数人的利益而被隐藏起来。这是为了人民。这是为了所有人。
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
画家不应该画他所看到的，而应该画将要看到的。
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
毕加索，米开朗基罗，可能是接近天才，但我不认为像伦勃朗这样的画家是天才。
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
作家应该用眼睛写作，画家应该用耳朵作画。
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
画家有两种东西，眼睛和心灵;他们每个人都应该互相帮助。
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
我成为画家也许要归功于花儿。