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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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

很少有人能从瞬间的光照中获得完整而惊人的真理。他们中的大多数人都是通过细胞的连续发展,在小范围内,一个片段一个片段地获得它,就像一个费力的马赛克。

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

欣赏是一种很短暂的激情,但一旦你对它的对象熟悉了,这种激情就会立即消失。

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。

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

人们开始抱怨我的体重,但我不会改变我的尺寸,因为他们不喜欢我的样子。

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

在通往真理的道路上,一个人只能犯两个错误;不走完全程,也不开始。

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

我的灵感不是来自书本或绘画。我从我遇到的女人那里学来的。

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

谁能正确地看到人脸:摄影师,镜子,还是画家?

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

当你专业地拍摄肖像时,这不是一种欲望,而是为了钱。

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

永远不要投资任何吃的或需要油漆的东西。

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

如果我必须为我的国家下蛋,我一定会下蛋。

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

宁可今天生蛋,不要明天生母鸡。

Earnest effort leads some to success.

认真的努力导致一些成功。