Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.

艺术是关系的过程。通过艺术，我们创造并分享我们自己。

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

艺术是消费对象的生产，在等待一个新世界的过程中被使用和丢弃，在这个新世界中，人们将成功地把自己从一切中解放出来，甚至从自己的意识中解放出来。

Art is the proper task of life.

艺术是人生应有的任务。

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

艺术是我早上起床的原因，但定义到此为止。我为一些我甚至无法定义的东西而活，这似乎不公平。

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命，前者造就了我们人类。

Art is the signature of civilizations.

艺术是文明的标志。

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

艺术是人类灵魂中储存的蜂蜜，用痛苦和辛劳的翅膀收集而成。

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

艺术是人类两项最崇高努力的象征:建设和避免破坏。

Art is the transmittable, personal impression of one quality in the quantity before us. It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

艺术是我们面前的数量中某一种品质的可传递的个人印象。正是这种有意识地决定他感兴趣的是什么，以及为什么感兴趣的能力，将艺术家与艺术系学生区分开来。

Art is the triumph over chaos.

艺术是对混乱的胜利。

Art is the truth of the imagination.

艺术是想象的真理。

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

艺术是不断的努力，以竞争的美丽的花朵-从来没有成功。

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

艺术是人的灵魂之窗。没有它，他将永远无法超越他眼前的世界;世人也看不见他的内心。

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

艺术是作者不受控制，而是主体控制作者。

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

艺术太严肃，不能当真。