A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

  • -- Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦

作家应该用眼睛写作,画家应该用耳朵作画。

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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此,通过努力来刺激局势既不合适,也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的,不安分的写作或绘画的冲动,只要吃点甜食,这种感觉就会过去。

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

我从这个开始:我完全没有画过我的童年。事实上,我从不画画。但是我帮助了我的父亲,他是一个房屋画家和装饰画家。他做舞台布景,他做玻璃画,他什么都做。

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

读书对棒球运动员不好。对他的眼睛不好。即使我的眼睛有一点点不好,我也不能打出本垒打。所以我放弃了阅读。

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

米勒并不是真正的作家,而是一个喋喋不休的人,有人给了他一台打字机。

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

只要我的音乐是真实的,我能抓住多少只耳朵就没有限制。

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature.

每个人都应该让自己经常被大自然淹没。

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

如果你写歌,你就知道它们的发音。

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

我的大耳朵表明我有音乐天赋。我很激动。

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

有一个词可以用来形容永不言弃的作家:出版。

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

画家构造,摄影师透露。

Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.

闭上你的眼睛。坠入爱河。呆在那里。

You don't write a book to show off.

你写书不是为了炫耀。

I paint with shapes.

我用形状画画。