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绘画
Painting
However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but as you know the Impressionists have already got a stronger color than Manet. This painter of the future- I can't imagine him doing.
然而，未来的画家将是一个从未存在过的色彩画家。马奈一直在努力，但你知道印象派已经有了比马奈更强烈的色彩。这位未来的画家——我无法想象他在做什么。
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。
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
在许多方面，戏剧对作家来说更有价值。我曾经认为这就像油漆一堵墙——当戏剧结束时，它就完成了——但现在我意识到这更像是园艺;你种下这个东西，然后你必须不断地照料它。你是生命的一部分。
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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。
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。
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。
A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
一幅画对你就像一串珍珠对猿猴一样重要。
If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.
如果人们对绘画的了解和我一样多，他们就不会买我的画了。
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。