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创造
Creation
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
我开始画画,最终角色们把自己卷入了一个情境中。最后,我回去试着删掉大部分的说教。
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
现在我听很多不同的东西,但是我听很多古典音乐。最后我想作曲和表演古典音乐。
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
我一直都喜欢诗歌,我一直都喜欢写音乐和作曲,但直到那个时候我才想到把这两者结合起来。
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
根据我的经验,一幅画根本不是用颜色和颜料画出来的。我不知道什么是绘画;谁知道是什么激发了绘画的欲望呢?
So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.
所以对我来说,这是非常相似的,在试图提取图像,这些元素将形成,希望,一个引人注目的视觉声明。
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
我发现,所有音乐中最有趣的是简单地将循环整齐地排列在一起,让它们慢慢地与其他的相移。
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
在艺术诞生之前,艺术家必须准备好被自己创造的火焰所吞噬。
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.
我总是先写歌词,节奏和旋律来自歌词。它总是来自歌词:词有节奏,词有旋律。
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
思想是难以捉摸、捉摸不定的东西。最好在床边放一叠纸和一支铅笔,这样你就可以在他们离开之前在晚上刺他们。
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
我喜欢把人造黄油或软饮料之类的简单广告剪辑在一起——各种各样愚蠢的产品——但我试图让这些广告与众不同。
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
低预算迫使你更有创造力。有时候,有太多的钱、时间和设备,你会想太多。我的方法是,你可以利用你的直觉。
We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.
我们把唱片头插进去,让它一遍又一遍的在自己的上面录音,并在里面播放键盘上的音符,创造出这种幽灵般的重复旋律。
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The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
生活给我们带来的最大的刺激是创造、构建和发展一些有用的东西。我们常常没有认识到并赞扬这种创造精神。正是这种精神创造了我们的就业机会。
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
大自然利用人类的想象力将她的创作提升到更高的层次。
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
当有一股巨大的力量压迫着自由时,就有可能形成具有更多创造力和力量的亚文化。
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。
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
个性比美更重要,但想象力比两者都重要。
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
每一块石头里面都有一个雕像,发现它是雕刻家的任务。