A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
我总是看着书，想知道怎么会有人想出这么多单词。但我的离婚以及后来爱上了别人，让我拥有了除写歌以外的其他写作能力。
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
任何一个大于第二个幂的数都不可能被写成两个类似幂的和。我对这一命题有一个真正奇妙的论证，这个论证的范围太窄，不能包含在内。
To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
为你写好一切…它不是真正的创造。这就是为什么我认为交响乐鼓手是如此有限。他们受限于在他们之前一百年由一千名鼓手所演奏的乐曲。
Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.
作曲是我最喜欢做的事情。每个流派都有自己独特的表达方式，你无法用其他流派来替代。所有的记录都是相互启发的，尽管它们在概念上并不相互关联。
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
我的目标是使建筑尽可能地非物质化。建筑是非常物质的东西。这需要大量的资源，所以只要能够实现相同的结果，为什么不删除不需要的内容呢?
There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.
限制中没有特权。换句话说，我不同意那些认为限制会让你更有创造力的人。我认为这是一个误导人的口号。如果没有他们，我可能会比有他们更有创造力。
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
如果你什么都不记得了，那么请记住:来自外部的灵感就像烤箱里的热量。它做的沐浴包还过得去。但来自内心的灵感就像一座火山:它改变了世界的面貌。
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
即使我不认为我在写作，我也在写作。我的大脑中有一部分是用来编歌的，我知道这是在收集东西，我知道当我有时间独处时，它们就会出现。
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
我现在意识到，我小时候最大的优势是想象力。当其他孩子都在读书写字的时候，我每天有整整七个小时的时间来练习我的想象力。你的生活中什么时候才有这样的空间?
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
我也看到伟人往往是孤独的。这是可以理解的，因为他们为自己制定了如此高的标准，以至于他们常常感到孤独。但同样的孤独也是他们创造能力的一部分。
In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work...all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.
在概念艺术中，概念是作品最重要的方面。所有的计划和决定都是事先做出的，执行起来也只是敷衍了事。想法变成了制造艺术的机器。
A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.
电池的定义是电池的集合。细胞是一罐化学物质。现在的挑战是把一个高能量的电池，以及大量的电池，安全地组合成一个大电池。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Craft is part of the creative process.
工艺是创造过程的一部分。
Write something that’s worth fighting over. Because that’s how you change things. That’s how you create art.
写一些值得为之奋斗的东西。因为这就是改变事物的方式。这就是你创造艺术的方式。
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
成为一名作家需要的不仅仅是天赋。
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
创造力可以被描述为放弃确定性。
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.
创造性团体的最终自由是试验新思想的自由。
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
创新的本质是，它将出现在一个边缘地带，在这个边缘地带，创新可以变得足够普遍，从而确立其有用性，而不会被正统体系的惯性所压倒。