Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

在任何事情上追求完美的艺术家,在任何事情上都无法达到完美。

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Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

然而,通过长期的经验和在有学问的学校里的刻苦学习,我所能获得的一切,就是知道我的知识不过是虚妄的,而那些自以为聪明的人,却是最大的傻瓜。

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

信心……繁荣的基础是诚实、荣誉、神圣的义务、忠诚的保护和无私的表现。没有他们,它就不能生存。

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

如果你听到内心有个声音说:“你不会画画”,那就一定要画画,然后那个声音就会消失。

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

艺术家唯一关心的是追求某种完美,而且是按照他自己的方式,而不是别人的方式。

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

我有很多美好的回忆,但我无法想象有什么比我现在的生活更令人兴奋。

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

任何妨碍你成为友好邻居的行为都是一种恐怖策略。

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

任何没有自己的内心世界去翻译的人都不是艺术家。

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

从某种意义上讲,合作这个词所理解的一切都是邪恶的。

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

旁观者往往比旁观者更能判断比赛的结果。

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

如果你对结果足够在意,你一定会得到它。

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

我是为了后台的一切而出去的。

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

总有一天,那些认为自己能赢的人会赢。

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

我们追求真理,并将承担后果。

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

我们使用的手段必须和我们追求的目的一样纯洁。