A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
冲突是思想的牛虻。它激励我们去观察和记忆。它促进发明。它使我们摆脱了盲从的被动状态，使我们善于注意和设计。
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
所有的艺术作品都是受委托创作的，因为没有一个艺术家可以通过简单的意志行为创作出一件作品，但他必须等到自己认为好的想法出现时再创作。
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
我对你用笔触作画时的表情不感兴趣。没关系，但是已经做完了，我想做点新的。
In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.
在文字的海洋里，印出来的是泡沫，浪花的泡沫骑在上面。这是一片黑暗的海洋，而且很深，潜水员需要戴上头盔，在较低的深度就会死亡。
I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.
我有时听我自己做的音乐，发现它是我不想从商店买的东西，如果有商店的话。当它是那样的时候，你必须做你想听的。
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
我决定要写关于食物的东西，我知道唯一的方法就是带着权威的口吻去写，这意味着我要学习这种语言，了解那种体验。
I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.
我和任何人一样喜欢改变。你不想一直做同样的事情，因为当你在做同样的事情的时候，你就很难去冒险、去创造、去感受灵感。
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
我从梦中醒来，整首歌都在那里。我在梦中听到它。我有意识地唤醒自己，拿起录音机，因为我听到它像唱片一样。
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.
这就是音乐的美。你可以从巴赫的圣歌中选取一个主题即兴创作。主题来自哪里并不重要;治疗方法可以是爵士乐。
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
这就是每次你走进房间和一个新朋友一起写作的感觉。就像，天哪，我必须脱掉我的衣服，让他们看到我所有的缺点。
For me, as for most novelists, every genuine imaginative event begins down there, with the facts, with the specific, and not with the philosophical, the ideological, or the abstract.
对我来说，就像大多数小说家一样，每一个真正富有想象力的事件都是从那里开始的，从事实开始，从具体开始，而不是从哲学、意识形态或抽象开始。
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
人们必须坚持说“不”的权利，坚持独处的权利，坚持从人群中脱颖而出的权利。有创造力的艺术家可以在他们自己的领域，通过努力，严谨的工作，用他们自己的方式来表达这一切。
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Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.
那些说治疗或分析会以某种方式阻碍他们的创造力的艺术家是完全错误的。恰恰相反:它打开了一扇紧闭的门。
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
绘画做了我们不能做的事——它把一个三维世界带入一个二维平面。
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
幻想不仅仅是不愉快的现实的替代品;它们也是彩排，计划。世界上所有的行为都是从想象开始的。
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.
每一个感知的行为，在某种程度上都是创造的行为，每一个记忆的行为，在某种程度上都是想象的行为。
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.
如果我们考虑的不是对象，而是创建对象的过程，简而言之，我们没有约束。我们手中掌握的过程，让我们能够创造出各种规模的结构，这些结构曾经是我们做梦也想不到的。
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
写小说并不仅仅是一次跨越边境的购物之旅，而是在想象中的工厂、街道和大教堂里度过数小时甚至数年的时间。