A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
绘画
Paintings
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。
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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
My paintings are rubbish.
我的画都是垃圾。
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。
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。
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。