The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  • -- Pablo Picasso 毕加索

今天的世界没有意义,为什么我要画这样的画呢?

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Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

事实上,我认为艺术存在于两个方向——广阔的笔触,宏大的画面,但另一方面,对表面上平淡无奇的事物进行细致的审视。从一粒沙子看到整个世界,就是这样。

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

当人们对一幅画如此熟悉,以至于不用看就能认出它时,它很快就变成了它自己的复制品。

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

记者对世界的不幸幸灾乐祸。正因为如此,他们常常在令其他人类失望的事件中获得一种不体面的快乐。

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

当我第一次出来的时候,就像当时的许多艺术家一样,我的声音非常精致,制作过度。

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

也许在某种意义上,所有的艺术家都是家庭主妇:地球家庭的看护者。

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

我认为一幅画的生命是有限的。