The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  • -- Van Wyck Brooks 范·威克·布鲁克斯

人类的创造冲动总是与占有冲动相斗争。

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

这种创造性的行为只持续了很短的一段时间,就像闪电一样的给予和接受,这段时间刚好够你把相机调平,把稍纵即逝的猎物困在你的小盒子里。

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

我内心深处的冲动是乐观的,在我看来,这种态度在精神上是必要的,是正确的,但在理智上却是可疑的。

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

所有这些原始的冲动都是人类行为的源泉,不容易用语言来描述。

I've always been creative, I think.

我想我一直都很有创造力。