The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

真正的艺术作品不过是神圣完美的影子。

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

真理是丑恶的:我们有艺术是为了不从真理中灭亡。

The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them.

武术的终极目标是不用它们。

The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.

潜在的原则或基本原理应该被它们最终所支持的美所隐藏，以至于需要大量挖掘才能揭示它们。

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

对艺术的理解最终取决于一个人是否愿意扩展自己的人性和对人类生活的知识。

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

毁灭的冲动也是一种创造性的冲动。

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

每一种艺术的价值和等级都与它所耗费的脑力劳动或生产它所带来的精神愉悦成正比。

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

创造性的本质在于它的新颖性，因此我们没有判断它的标准。

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

清醒的头脑在艺术上是最没用的。

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where i am sitting now.

生命之网是一场美丽而无意义的舞蹈。生命之网是一个有着移动目标的过程。就在我现在坐的地方，生命之网是一件完美完成的艺术品。

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

那么，网络，或者图案，一个既感性又有逻辑性的网络，一个优雅而富有内涵的结构:那就是风格，那是文学艺术的基础。

The whole point of a spectacular tag is not the artwork; it's the mystery of how it was done.

引人注目的标签的全部意义不在于艺术品;这是如何做到的谜。

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

整个世界，就像我们在视觉上经历的那样，通过色彩的神秘领域来到我们面前。

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

艺术作品假定完美的旁观者的存在，而对没有完美的旁观者这一事实漠不关心。

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

这件艺术品是一只填充鳄鱼。