There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

一个文盲身上有一种说不出的新鲜感和无意识感,它使最高尚的表达天才的力量受到贬低和嘲笑。

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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

我很清楚,你不能再拖了。创意失去了一定的新鲜度,创意有保质期,有时它们必须被其他创意所取代。

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

每当一个学生经过一幢属于他的学院的非常紧急、富有表现力的建筑时,它都能帮助他确信,他确实有那样的头脑,有那样的灵魂。

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

我从来没有感觉到我周围有一个无意识的部分醒来或从壁橱里出来;没有挣扎,没有压制。

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

不会读和写音乐与不会说和写是不一样的。

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

绘画是一种具有永久性的表现手法。