My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

我的想象中没有比继续为艺术而活更美好的幸福了。

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

我对美术的热爱与日俱增——我看得越多，就越想看。

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

妈妈对我说:“如果你成为一名士兵，你就会成为一名将军;如果你成为一名僧侣，你最终会成为教皇。”相反，我成了一名画家，最后成了毕加索。

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

我的音乐是塑料的，防腐的，平静的。

My trade and art is to live.

我的职业和艺术就是生活。

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

我担心的是，歌剧将成为一种具有历史意义的艺术形式，而不是一种活生生的东西。

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

从紫式部到普鲁斯特，这部小说的叙事艺术创作出了许多伟大的诗歌作品。

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

大自然通常会与这种对待抗争一段时间，直到她的力量似乎在很大程度上耗尽，这时她才会安静地屈服于艺术的力量。

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

自然是座闹鬼的房子——但艺术是座试图闹鬼的房子。

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

永远不要以貌取人。

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

再多巧妙的发明也不能取代想象力的基本要素。

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

没有不能表达思想的艺术是高贵的，没有不能表达不改变的思想的艺术。

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

没有任何艺术比我的更缺乏自发性。我所做的是对大师们的反思和研究的结果。

No artist is ahead of his time. He 'is' his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

没有一个艺术家是超越他的时代的。他是他的时代;只是别人落后了。

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

没有一件好作品是完美的，对完美的要求总是对艺术目的的误解。