The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

  • -- Balthus 巴尔蒂斯

绘画艺术实际上已经消失了。几乎没有人真正拥有它。只要看看本世纪的画家就知道了。

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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

当你作为一个演员开始一个项目的时候,你知道,你可能会从写一个列表的角度来接近这个角色——即使这是一个你在脑海中列出的列表——用这个角色所拥有的或那个角色所拥有的形容词。

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

在任何特定的时刻,我身体里的任何额外部分都没有完全形成。我几乎没有意识到;它等待着下一本书。在实际写作过程中,如果幸运的话,它会出现在我的脑海中,让我大吃一惊。

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

祷告使人有机会认识一位素不相识的绅士。我说的不是造他的主,乃是他自己。

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

我同情几乎所有想要摆脱旧体制的团体。

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

当我被某种东西占据时,我就会勇往直前。