My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  • -- Pablo Picasso 毕加索

妈妈对我说:“如果你是一名士兵,你就会成为一名将军。”如果你是个和尚,你就会成为教皇。”相反,我是个画家,后来成了毕加索。

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Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

毕加索对我的影响是如此之大,以至于当我开始画漫画的时候,我想我正在远离毕加索,甚至我画的毕加索漫画几乎都是为了摆脱他的影响。

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

总的来说,你如何让你的公司成为一个工作的好地方?这是一套非常非常复杂的技能。很多都是在职培训,再加上优秀的导师。

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

习惯上,我可能会把这种制度化的消遣写得好像它存在于一般的环境之外,但我的故事不适合这样的处理。

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

就画家的气质而言,所需要的只是一种足以让大众理解的表达方式。

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

毕加索,米开朗基罗,可能是接近天才,但我不认为像伦勃朗这样的画家是天才。

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

还有一位老诗人,我不记得他的名字了,他说:“真理是时间的女儿。”

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

我继续远离画家常用的工具,如画架、调色板、画笔等。

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

太多的人在寻找合适的人,而不是努力成为合适的人。

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

士兵的勇气被认为是人性中最廉价、最普遍的品质。

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

我和教皇一样有权威,只是没有那么多人相信。

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable.

有些人对我的评价是难以置信的。

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

人类的财产,在道德上总是不公平的,已经成为国家的危险。

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

与正常情况相反,随着我的技术进步,我的声音变得越来越高。

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

如果你把真理关起来,埋在地下,它只会生长。

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

我想知道一个士兵是否曾经补过他外套上的弹孔?

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.

我们不能通过保持现状而成为我们想成为的人。

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.

推广你喜欢的,而不是抨击你讨厌的。

A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent.

一个出逃的修道士从来不会称赞他的修院。

Not everyone who has a cowl on is a monk.

不是每个戴兜帽的人都是和尚。