If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

  • -- Ellen Terry 爱伦·泰瑞

如果这是艺术家的标志,爱艺术先于一切,放弃一切,为艺术而放弃一切,认为只要他能得到一些东西,做一些好事,伟大的工作,生活中所有美好的东西就会失去,那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。

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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

艺术媒介一词的使用,至少可以说是误导人的,因为创造艺术作品的是艺术家而不是媒介。摄影艺术家通过对思想、思想、经验、洞见和理解的升华,赋予内容以形式。

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

我知道生命中最重要的是什么。我知道,仅仅因为我在银幕上假扮了两个小时的别人,并不能让我成为比别人更好的人。所以,我介意这些。简单的事情。

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

如果我认为这一切都是命中注定的,那么它就剥夺了任何奋斗的动力,或者忍受一切,去追求那些不可能实现的梦想,所有那些戏剧性的事情。

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

在我们对人类交易的判断中,光学定律被颠倒了;我们最模糊地看到周围的物体。

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

汽车在技术上比捆绑板更为复杂,但人们使用它们的动机有时是相同的。

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

从本质上说,我绝对是个流行艺术家。