The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  • -- Elbert Hubbard 埃尔伯特·哈伯德

雕刻家通过凿掉大理石中不需要的部分来雕刻出美丽的雕像,这是一个淘汰的过程。

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One does not walk around a statue any more than one walks around a painting, because one does not walk around a figure to receive an impression from it. Nothing is material in space.

一个人绕着雕像走,就像绕着一幅画走一样,因为一个人绕着一个人物走,并不是为了从它那里得到一个印象。太空中没有物质。

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

当我拿到一台电视机时,我们没有天线,但我发现,如果我或其中一个孩子站在它旁边,你就能拍到一张照片。所以我不得不做一个可以站在电视机旁的雕像。

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

如果我们不能开始就基本问题达成一致,比如消除最具虐待性的童工形式,那么我们真的还没有准备好走向未来。

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

任何事物,无论如何,都是美的,它的美来自于它自己,除了它自己别无所求。赞美不是它的一部分,因为没有什么会因为赞美而变得更坏或更好。

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

艺术产生丑陋的东西,而丑陋的东西往往随着时间的推移而变得更加美丽。另一方面,时尚产生的美丽的东西总是随着时间变得丑陋。

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

其消失的第一个也是最重要的原因是一个毋庸置疑的事实:进化不是一门科学;这只是一种假设,一种推测。

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

迪斯科应该有一个更好的名字,一个美丽的名字,因为它是一种美丽的艺术形式。它使消费者变得美丽。消费者是明星。

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

幻想,被理智抛弃,产生不可能的怪物;与之相结合,她是艺术之母,奇迹之源。

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

亲爱的上帝!美在自然和艺术中是如何变化的。女人的肉体必须像大理石;大理石雕像必须像肉一样。

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

听着,我不在乎有没有人喜欢我的工作。但在生活的其他方面,我可能会非常不安全。

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

正是无知的眼睛给每件事物赋予了固定不变的色彩;小心这个绊脚石。

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

随着年龄的增长,你会发现自己毕竟不是那么早出生的。时间缩短了。

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

雕刻家是对事物的形状感兴趣的人,是文字中的诗人,是声音中的音乐家。

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

回到冰面上是很艰难的,同时也是一种疗伤的过程。

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

在过去的几年里,我一直试图摆脱说谎,但这很难。

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

我交大约三分之一的税,我捐出大约三分之一,我遵守法律。

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

雕刻家挥舞着凿子,被击打的大理石变得美丽。

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

我选择一块大理石,把我不需要的东西砍掉。

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

现实很少需要如此多的想象。

There is no such thing as being too independent.

没有什么是过于独立的。

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

首先需要的品质是大胆。

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

作家的障碍只是自我的失败。

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

我喜欢我职业生涯的所有部分。

Craft is part of the creative process.

工艺是创造过程的一部分。