To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

在我看来，古老的大师并不是艺术;它们的价值在于它们的稀缺性。

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.

开一家商店很容易，保持它的营业是一门艺术。

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.

说一件艺术品很好，但大多数人却无法理解，这和说某种食物很好，但大多数人不能吃一样。

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

将光明射入人类心灵的黑暗之中——这是艺术家的职责。

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty.

说真话和做真话时要始终如一、准确无误，几乎与在恐吓或惩罚下说真话一样困难，甚至可能同样有功。

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

对艺术家来说，自然界中没有任何丑陋的东西。

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

对艺术家来说，森林是和平与舞蹈阴影的庇护所。

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

对于那些为了艺术本身而热爱艺术的人来说，往往是在艺术最不重要、最卑微的表现中，才会获得最强烈的快乐。

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.

用温柔的笔触唤醒灵魂， 培养天才，修补心灵。

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

对想象力丰富的人来说，一幅画中太多的现实总是令人失望的。我们喜欢建议，而不是硬事实。

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

传统艺术是创造而不是复兴。复兴:留给历史学家吧，他们正在回顾历史。

Translation is the art of failure.

翻译是失败的艺术。

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

垃圾使我们对艺术产生了兴趣。

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

宝物不再可以通过器物艺术获得。

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

像对待王子一样对待一件艺术品。让它先跟你说。