I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

当时我是一名艺术学生，和其他成千上万的学生一样。

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

作为一名球员，我并不成功，因为这是一场技巧比赛。

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

我非常喜欢购买当代艺术品，但我刚刚决定把它们统统扔掉。并不是说它不是伟大的艺术，而是突然间我的心情变了，我想回到十七、十八世纪的大师们那里。

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

对于那些把闲聊想象成知识，把沉默想象成无知，把感情想象成艺术的人，我洗手不干了。

I wear my heart on my blog.

我把我的心写在我的博客上。

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

我进入这个行业是为了钱，而艺术就是从中成长起来的。如果人们对那句话大失所望，我也没办法。这是事实。

I will be a historical painter

我将成为一名历史画家

I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.

我希望以一种拍摄梦境的方式作画。

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

我希望分享和传承我们这一代人的一些特点，鼓励年轻人创造自己的艺术、音乐和文学。

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

我宁愿成为一颗华丽的流星，我的每一个原子都闪耀着绚丽的光芒，也不愿成为一颗沉睡而永恒的行星。

I write best when "I" am not writing.

当“我”不写作时，我写得最好。

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

我想把艺术项目放回学校。

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

我想去艺术学校。我想学画画。我想说一口流利的西班牙语。我想成为一名脑外科医生。

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

我想读我写的故事，我想展示我画的画。这很自然。所以我知道我想以某种方式进入艺术领域，我想以某种方式展示我的作品。

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

我坚信演员们会带着不在家的人去工作。人们在他们的艺术或作品中表现出他们的另一个自我。