Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

艺术家不做东西。艺术家创造神话。

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

艺术家不谈论艺术。艺术家谈论工作。如果我要对年轻作家说些什么，那就是不要再把写作当作一种艺术。把它想成工作。

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

艺术家的存在是为了向我们展示世界。窗户也是如此。

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

艺术家本身并没有受到限制，但他们的作品却受到了限制。

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

艺术家通过他们自由的表达，鼓励他人自由。这是艺术作品经久不衰的品质。

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality.

艺术对真实的唯一关心就是废除它，并以一种新的现实来代替它。

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

通过回顾我的过去，我发现，我从一个孩子开始。巧合的是，我弟弟也是。可以说，我母亲并没有把所有的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里:她给了我一个名叫拉塞尔的弟弟，他教会了我什么是“适者生存”。

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

作为一个武术的终生实践者，我被训练在面对逆境和危险时保持冷静。

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

正如所有的艺术都依赖于视觉一样，不同种类的艺术也依赖于人们看待事物的不同方式。

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

就演奏爵士乐而言，除了交谈之外，没有任何其他艺术形式能给人带来自发互动的满足感。

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

在自然中，在艺术中，在优雅中;这是粗糙的处理，给灵魂，以及石头，他们的光泽。

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

只要艺术是文明的美容院，艺术和文明都不是安全的。

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

在我热情高涨的时候，世界上似乎没有人能做出如此美丽和重要的东西。

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

总而言之，你想永远领先于别人一步，而当涉及到嘻哈、文化和艺术时，你想成为那个标志性的家伙。

At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.

在这样的时刻，艺术的生存变得更加重要。