Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

  • -- Jerry Saltz 杰瑞·萨特茨

拍卖行操纵着一场游戏。他们确切地知道有多少人会投标一件作品,以及他们是谁。在画廊里,艺术品只需要一个愿意付钱的人。

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What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

我最喜欢的是:阅读那些把我带到另一个世界的好文章,每次读上几个小时——并且能够称之为“工作!”当然,我还发现了一些宝贵的信息,这些信息要么正是我一直在寻找的,要么在某种程度上与故事完美契合。

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

我测量每样东西,因为我总是在想,如果我花了这么多时间来确保这个食谱就是我想要的,我为什么要把东西扔进锅里?

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

不知怎的,我总是把自己打扮得漂漂亮亮的。