A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.
有创造力的人把他们表面上最放纵的艺术奇想变成了一种职业。
The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
想象力是由约束释放出来的。你戴上镣铐,打破了束缚。
To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.
承认否定主义是一种创造的力量,就等于完全放弃了创造的立场。
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
我很想让吉他听起来像它不应该听起来像的东西。
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
古典艺术是必然的艺术:现代浪漫主义艺术带有随意性和偶然性的印记。
And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
除非你有创造力,否则人们会认为你一直在工作。
I was quite solitary. I would be up in my room reading books so I developed a vivid imagination.
我很孤独。我会在房间里看书,这样我就有了生动的想象力。
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
思想创造了一个新的天堂,一个新的苍穹,一个新的能量之源,新的艺术从中流动。
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
生存就是改变,改变就是成熟,成熟就是不断地创造自己。
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
一个从未幻想过有其他父母的孩子严重缺乏想象力。
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
如果有一本书你想读,但还没有写出来,那么你必须写出来。
The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
在我看来,如果你想拍动作片,你必须和吴宇森一起拍。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
最好的书来自内心的某个地方。你写作不是因为你想写,而是因为你不得不写。
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。
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
摄影不仅仅是一种传播思想的媒介。这是一种创造性的艺术。
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
发明是一种技能,有些人有,有些人没有。但你可以学习如何发明。
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。
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
当我们做的事情无关紧要时,我们更愿意尝试那些没有尝试过的。因此,许多发明都是以玩具的形式诞生的。