When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  • -- Pablo Picasso 毕加索

当你从一幅肖像开始,通过连续的消除,寻找一个纯粹的形式,一个清晰的体积,你不可避免地会到达鸡蛋。同样地,从鸡蛋开始,按照同样的过程反过来,一个人以肖像结束。

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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

就像一个跑步者的成千上万个连续的姿势被压缩成一个唯一的象征性姿态,我们的眼睛可以感知到,艺术可以复制,对每个人来说,这就变成了一个跑步者的形象。

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

为什么没有人看到化石本身就产生了一种关于地球形成的理论呢?如果没有化石,没有人会想到地球的形成会有连续的时代。

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.

我经常把注意力集中在眼睛和嘴唇上,它们是很好的情绪和感觉的指示器,我发现我可以通过把观众的注意力带到这些区域来投射人物到我的肖像中。

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

在三个星期的时间里,我遇到了一群人,他们刚刚成立了一些小的程序员合作社,每个人都在谈论创业。

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

有些人总是批评含糊不清的陈述。我倾向于对精确的陈述持批评态度;他们是唯一可以正确地贴上“错误”标签的人。

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

我学过摄影、绘画和素描,但我更喜欢雕塑。我喜欢它,因为它很有形。

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

每一幅有感情的画像都是艺术家的画像,而不是模特的画像。

Perseverance, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

毅力:一种卑贱的美德,平庸之辈靠它获得不光彩的成功。

We're just now starting to get a feel for what it can really do for us.

我们现在才刚刚开始了解它究竟能为我们做些什么。

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

人生是一连串的教训,只有经历过才会懂得。

The first hen that cackles is the one that laid the egg.

第一只咯咯叫的母鸡就是下蛋的那只。

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

印象主义的;它是绘画中光的诞生。

Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.

宁可今天生蛋,不要明天生母鸡。