The fine pleasure is not to do a thing but to feel that you could... If I could but get on, if I could but produce a work I should not mind its being buried, silenced, and going no further; but it kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.

  • -- Gerard Manley Hopkins 杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯

美好的快乐不是去做一件事,而是觉得你可以……只要我能继续前进,只要我能创作出一件作品,我就不介意它被埋没、沉寂,再也走不动了;但做时间的太监却永远不会生孩子,这让我很痛苦。

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A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

一个人可以画画或谈论画画,但他不能同时做这两件事。

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

艺术使我们在发现自我的同时也失去了自我。