A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
绘画
Painting
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
过去，如果你站在一幅你不理解的画前，你有义务去猜测。现在你不喜欢。
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
绘画是盲人的职业。他画的不是他所看到的，而是他的感觉，他告诉自己他所看到的。
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
当人们对一幅画如此熟悉，以至于不用看就能认出它时，它很快就变成了它自己的复制品。
There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
只有一件事是真实的:立即画出你所看到的。当你拥有了它，你就拥有了它。当你没有，你重新开始。其余的都是骗人的。
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
世界上有三种人:无法忍受毕加索的人，无法忍受拉斐尔的人，以及从未听说过他们中的任何一个人。
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
我希望我的画能像我一样，给人一种整体的感觉，一种独立的感觉，一种个性的感觉。
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
在大自然如此美丽的时刻，我经历了一段令人恐惧的清晰时期。我不再对自己有信心，这些画就像在梦里一样出现了。
Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
麦洛斯说，你是我的第一选择。在我看来，那付不起房租。我说，告诉我接下来要做什么，因为我正忙着粉刷我的厨房。
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
我画这幅画的时候脑子里就想着这幅画，但是很难猜测它的大小或颜色，以及它周围的所有颜色，以及它真正的样子。
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
但是，归根结底，艺术的目的是创造空间——不受装饰或插图影响的空间，绘画的主体可以生活在其中。
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.
我不介意别人打断我。我在每幅画上都详细记录了颜料和材料。我可以从停止的地方重新开始。
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
如果有学生想知道在哪里学习绘画，你会建议去某个地方，但是没有地方。我不知道把学生送到哪里去学习。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
永远不要投资任何吃的或需要油漆的东西。
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
画画只是另一种记日记的方式。
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
当我完成一幅画的时候，我拿着一些上帝创造的东西——一块石头，一朵花，一棵树的树枝或者我的手——作为最后的测试。如果这幅画站在一个人无法创造的东西旁边，这幅画就是真迹。如果两者之间有冲突，那就是糟糕的艺术。
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
我认为，绘画不可避免地是一种古老的活动，它依赖于精神价值。
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
我讨厌谈论美的人。什么是美丽?绘画中一定有问题!
People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
我的画以人物为主。虽然它们并不明显，但你可以感觉到它们的存在。