A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
绘画
Painting
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.
我喜欢画画有很多原因。其中一个是，它真正需要的是我，一支铅笔和一本便笺簿。这是我一直热衷的事情，现在依然如此。
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
我一直很喜欢表现主义绘画，就像每个欧洲人一样。事实上，我更欣赏它，因为这些正是我父亲那一代人所鄙视的画作。
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。
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
我无法改变我的画卖不出去的事实。但总有一天，人们会认识到，它们的价值超过了画中所用颜料的价值。
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
人们应该倾听的不是画家的语言，而是自然的语言。对事物本身的感觉，对现实的感觉，比对图片的感觉更重要。
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
艺术之所以能起作用，是因为它能吸引某些心智的官能。音乐依赖于听觉系统的细节，绘画和雕塑依赖于视觉系统。诗歌和文学依赖于语言。
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
当我画画的时候，我没有意识到我在做什么。只有在熟悉了一段时间之后，我才明白我一直在做什么。我不害怕改变，因为这幅画有它自己的生命。
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
当这幅画挂在你的墙上很长时间，你不会注意到它。你会厌倦它，即使它是毕加索的作品。当下一代继承这幅画时，他们就把它卖掉。我不想被出卖。
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
在我的世界里，历史可以归结为语言和艺术。没有人太在意曾经打过什么仗，谁赢了谁输了——除非有一幅画、一出戏、一首歌或一首诗讲述了这个事件。
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
当我画画的时候，我真的在画画。我可能有一个平足的技巧，或类似的东西，但对我来说，刺激，或事物的实质，是真正的绘画。我不喜欢把它说出来。
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
但是当我画一幅画的时候，我会从一幅画开始画，但是我会在画中加入一些我非常确定我想要的东西，然后用印刷的点或彩纸在画上拼贴，在我真正投入之前。
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
当你从一幅肖像开始，通过连续的消除，寻找一个纯粹的形式，一个清晰的体积，你不可避免地会到达鸡蛋。同样地，从鸡蛋开始，按照同样的过程反过来，一个人以肖像结束。
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
他们应该像画金翅雀那样把画家的眼睛挖出来，这样他们才能唱得更好。
I want to die painting.
我想死于绘画。
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
画画在你不知道怎么画的时候很容易，但是当你知道怎么画的时候就很难了。
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 have sworn to die painting.
我发誓死于绘画。
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
一幅好的画对我来说就像一个朋友。它陪伴着我，安慰着我，激励着我。