A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
绘画
Paintings
My paintings are rubbish.
我的画都是垃圾。
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
所有的指纹画都没有网格。
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
有人说他们在我的画中看到了诗意;我只看到科学。
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
不是每个人都相信绘画,但人们相信照片。
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'
有很多画或项目“几乎完成”是很容易的。
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
我的画没有一个中心,但始终取决于相同的兴趣。
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
人们很容易看出西斯廷教堂画作的创作者首先是一位雕塑家。
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
总的来说,我不太喜欢看画。我对他们了解得太多了。我把它们拆开。
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。
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
我发现自己被戏剧所吸引。我感兴趣。在我读过的书里,我喜欢的画里,总是比较黑暗的东西。
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!
但我坚持读书。我爱他们。我甚至认为它们是房间里非常漂亮的装饰——比绘画好得多……那不完全是真的!
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
我认为艺术善于回顾和展望。我不认为艺术擅长正面观察。说到底,人比画更重要。
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People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
把我的画挂在墙上的人是在把他们的价值观挂在墙上:信仰、家庭、家、更简单的生活方式、自然之美、宁静、安宁、和平、快乐、希望。他们召唤你进入这个世界,这个世界为你的晚间新闻广播提供了另一种选择。
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
所有的图画都是不自然的。所有的照片都很悲伤,因为它们是关于死人的。你不会在一个特殊的时间或特定的事件中想到绘画。拍照片的时候,我总觉得自己在看一些死去的东西。
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
当我在学校画抽象画的时候,和其他人一样,老师说这些画可以做成很好的窗帘。我总是会忽略使用颜色的形式,因为颜色对我来说很自然。