A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
对我来说，写作就是减掉脂肪，找到意义。
I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
我将永远拥有我的歌曲，我想我永远不会枯竭。
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
大约一年前，我突然写了一堆歌。
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
让我们记住，只有悲伤才是伟大事物的创造者。
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
适当地运用创造力可以使一个广告达到十个广告的效果。
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
我找不到我梦想中的跑车，所以我自己造了它。
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
我喜欢创造世界、人物、背景和场景。
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
我只是一直想一个人去一个有创意的空间。
The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.
拥有想法和创造力的本质令人难以置信地鼓舞人心。
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
雕塑是画家对绘画最好的评价。
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
独创性意味着敢于超越公认的规范。
The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.
艺术家的重要性在于为语言带来新的符号。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
只要一支笔和一瓶墨水，你就能看到你能做什么，看到你能做出什么样的质地、色调和颜色，这是一件很神奇的事情。
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
作家应该把自己的思想埋得很深，并通过小说中的人物来传达。
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
几乎所有情况下，富有创造力的少数人都让世界变得更美好。
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
我们必须谦虚地承认，发明并不在于从虚无中创造，而在于从混沌中创造。
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。
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
在文字的世界里，想象力是自然的力量之一。