I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

我相信娱乐可以立志成为艺术，也可以成为艺术，但如果你一开始就想做艺术，那你就是个白痴。

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

我相信上帝，只是我把它拼成了自然。

I believe in art.

我相信艺术。

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

我相信真正的艺术是具有普遍吸引力的。

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

我认为，与其他艺术家就艺术的意识形态或技术方法交换意见不会有什么好处。

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

无论在我的生活中还是在我的绘画中，我都可以很好地没有上帝，但我不能，尽管我很痛苦，没有比我更伟大的东西，那就是我的生命，创造的力量。

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

我不能容忍你到处走动欣赏的艺术。一本书要么是强盗，要么是反叛者，要么是人群中的一个人。

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

我无法改变我的画卖不出去的事实。但总有一天，人们会认识到，它们的价值超过了画中所用颜料的价值。

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

我不能假装自己是喜剧艺术的好学生，因为任何一个对幽默持哲学态度的人都不知道自己在说什么。

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

我可以画一百年，一千年而不停歇，而我仍然觉得自己一无所知。

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

我渴望秩序，却发现它只存在于艺术中。

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

我不想拯救艺术——我太尊重老艺术家了，不认为艺术需要拯救。但我知道它已经完成了，即使在那个时候，我不知道我会做什么。

I do my job like I breathe.

我像呼吸一样工作。

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

我想人们不会因为什么而记住我。但我不会用这些术语来思考我的工作。为子孙后代而工作和为金钱而工作一样庸俗。

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

我不希望艺术只为少数人而存在，就像不希望教育只为少数人而存在，不希望自由只为少数人而存在。