A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.
我在自己的脑海里度过了我的童年,编造故事。我没有太多的外部影响,所以我能够自己决定我想做什么。
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.
我从我想写的主题开始。然后我为它做一个音乐基础,用音乐创造一种氛围。一旦我这样做了,歌词就排在最后。
I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
我的意思是肉体,永不褪色!看哪,肉体永不离开受造之物,因为有了那神的灵,肉体就不能朽坏。若灵软弱,肉体就软弱了。
With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.
写第一部小说时,我就在山脚下,但我看到了通往山顶的道路,我渴望写一些引人入胜的故事,讲述我所感兴趣的一切。
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.
当你踢足球的时候,大部分时间你都要让球动起来,但是一旦你进入进攻三分之一,你必须要有创造力,你必须让你的天赋接管比赛。
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
不是说这幅画是一种解脱。这样做的原因是渴望创造。我必须这么做!我见过,我还记得,我要把它画出来。
The function of the artist is to disturb...In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution--the principle of life...He is the creative spirit working in the soul of man.
艺术家的作用是干扰……在一个惧怕变革的世界里,他宣扬革命——生命的原则……他是人类灵魂中的创造精神。
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!
正常情况下,当我们写歌的时候,我们想做一个封面,但从来没有一个封面唱片。对我们来说,这是一个概念。我们不想要一个概念!
Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
因为有很多维度的形式,虽然你也可以把它们变成物理形式,但你有可能创造出很多我们无法用同样的方式塑造的东西。
I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.
我认为这是所有的人的责任,作为聪明的和交流的人,学习所有的想法,并利用他们作为一种手段来想出新的想法。
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
我认为诗歌是一种实验,在这种实验中,许多元素被放在一起,在测试的条件下,看看他们将如何相互作用,创造意义或相关性。
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.
至少和流浪猫在一起,我们真的把音乐带到了别的地方。首先,我们自己写歌。这是现代古典音乐的一个弱点,如果你做摇滚或蓝调。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
没有人把创业说成是生存,但创业确实是生存,也是培养创造性思维的方式。
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
创造力来自于思想的冲突。
The man who has no imagination, has no wings.
没有想象力的人没有翅膀。
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
你可以尽可能多地从前辈身上汲取经验,但之后就得靠你自己去创造一些新的东西。
If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.
如果你花足够的时间和你的角色在一起,情节就会自然而然地发生。
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
画家画的是事物的表象,而不是它们客观的正确性,事实上他创造的是事物的新表象。