The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

神秘消失了，但惊喜才刚刚开始。

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

系列艺术作品的叙事更像是音乐而不是文学。

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

成为一名伟大艺术家的需要使成为一名艺术家变得困难。创作一件伟大的艺术作品的需要使得创作任何艺术作品都变得困难。

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

负片相当于作曲家的乐谱，而印刷版则相当于它的演奏。每种表现都有细微的不同。

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

艺术的新工作就是坐以待毙，变得越来越昂贵。

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

最高尚的快乐是理解的快乐。

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

我的钢琴弹得不比许多钢琴家好。但是音符之间的停顿啊，这就是艺术的所在。

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

通过流行作品赚钱，然后退休从事好工作，这是艺术家们最熟悉的魔鬼陷阱。

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

我们的目标不是创造艺术，而是让艺术处于一种不可避免的美妙状态。

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

艺术家的目标是创造美。美丽是什么是另一个问题。

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

唯一诚实的艺术形式是笑，喜剧。你不能假装……试着在一小时内假装三次大笑——哈哈哈哈哈哈——他们会把你带走的，伙计。你不能。

The only interesting ideas are heresies.

唯一有趣的想法是异端邪说。

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

对于一件艺术品来说，唯一有效的规则就是它要忠于它自己。

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

画家把宇宙放在他的头脑和手中。

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

画家必须完全自由地发挥他可能有的任何感情或感觉，不排斥任何他天生就有的东西。