A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

一幅画是一件艺术品，不是因为它是“现代的”，也不是因为它是“古老的”，而是因为它是人类情感的真诚表达。

A picture is worth a thousand words.

一幅画胜过千言万语。

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

剧作家必须是他自己的观众。小说家可能几页就失去读者;剧作家一刻也不敢失去观众。

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

艺术和思想的一个主要功能是把个人从环境意义上的文化专制中解放出来，并允许他以一种感知和判断的自主性超越文化。

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

一个真正制作精良的钮扣孔是艺术与自然之间的唯一联系。

A society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

一个没有乱穿马路者的社会可能意味着一个没有艺术家的社会。

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

一件成功的艺术作品，不是在虚假的和谐中消解矛盾，而是在其最内在的结构中，把纯粹的、毫不妥协的矛盾，以消极的方式表达和谐的理念。

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

从我的照片中你可以看到，我并不害怕爱上这些人。

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

一棵从地里长出来的树今天和以前一样好。它不需要采取令人吃惊的新方法。

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

一件有理论的作品就像一件商品，它的价格标签还在。

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

一件艺术品对社会没有任何重要性。它只对个人重要。

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself – or else it belongs to the field of illustration.

一件绘画作品应该是美丽的，表现抽象的色彩和形式，不应该让我们对它本身以外的任何“故事”产生兴趣，否则它就属于插画领域。

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

艺术作品是通过气质来透视创作的一个角落。

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind

一件艺术品最重要的是心灵的冒险

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

艺术作品是艺术家的意识能够将其情感传达给任何准备接受它们的人的作品。没有什么不好的艺术。