Don't just be a consumer, be a creator. Somewhere inside you is a masterpiece waiting to be exposed.

不要只是做一个消费者，要做一个创造者。在你内心的某个角落，有一幅杰作等待着你去发现。

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

不要夸大你的名字。把你工作的故事演得过火。

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

不要光顾连锁书店。每次我看到某个作家计划在连锁书店读书和签名，我就想告诉他，他在背后捅那些独立书店的竹杠。

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

毫无疑问，自然界中有些东西尚未被发现。如果一个艺术家发现了它们，他就为他的继任者开辟了道路。

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

绘画是一门诚实的艺术。作弊是不可能的。不是好就是坏。

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

梦想指引我们，艺术定义我们，数学让一切成为可能，爱照亮我们的道路。

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

死亡是一门艺术，就像其他一切一样。我做得特别好。我这么做感觉就像在地狱。我这样做是为了感觉真实。我想你可以说我有个电话。

Education is the art of making man ethical.

教育是使人合乎道德的艺术。

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

自我中心主义:看到别人看不到的自己的艺术。

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

艺术作品所产生的情感只有在不是通过情感勒索而获得的时候才有价值。

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

嫉妒是一种把别人的幸福看得比自己多的艺术。

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

错误不在于艺术，而在于艺术家。

Etiquette is the fine tuning of education.

礼仪是教育的微调。

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

每一种创造行为首先都是一种毁灭行为。