I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

为了不符合自己的口味，我强迫自己自相矛盾。

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

一般来说，我发现对绘画研究最少的人是最好的评判者。

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

我对我的艺术没有幻想。我是公众造就我的，因此，我不太可能忘记我欠他们的债。

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

我无意通过我的艺术诋毁或伤害任何人的信仰。

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

我在艺术中没有什么可以隐藏的。最初的力量本身就能把任何人带到他必须达到的终点。

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

我的头脑中有些东西是别人教我的不同的——形状和想法离我如此之近——它们对我的存在和思考方式如此自然，以至于我从来没有想过要把它们放下。

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

我对艺术一无所知，但要成为一名画家，你必须证明自己。

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

我要毁灭，毁灭绘画中存在的一切。我对绘画一窍不通。

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

我真的很想做艺术，除了当我给人们拍照片的时候，我会给他们做衣服，这样我就可以控制整个事情。

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

我知道我遇到了这样一个人，他的个性是如此迷人，如果我允许他这样做，他会吸收我的整个天性，我的整个灵魂，甚至我的艺术本身。

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

我缺乏使大自然充满活力的绚丽多彩的色彩。

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

我学会了孤独的奇妙艺术，当你一个人走在路上时，那种饱经风霜的渴望就会汹涌而过，汹涌而过。

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

我离开了科学，然后我进入了艺术领域，但我对事物的分析非常透彻。我选择将艺术和建筑作为完全独立的领域，而不是将它们融合在一起。

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

我喜欢音乐，因为它是唯一看不见的艺术形式。

I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what's on the wall.

我喜欢艺术，有时候你看到的更多的是你是谁，而不是墙上挂着什么。