Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
现在，在照相之前先研究构图的规则，有点像在散步之前先研究万有引力定律。这些规则和规律是从既成事实中推导出来的;它们是反思的产物。
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
现在，在这些原则基础上发展起来并形成自己的语言就是我们所要处理的，问题是把一件艺术作品从那个媒介带到另一个媒介中去，这个媒介是根据不同的原则形成的，以不同的方式去听和理解。
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
伟大的造物主啊，请再给我们一个小时来完成我们的艺术，完善我们的生活。
O, had I but followed the arts!
啊，我要是追求艺术就好了!
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
公园里的物品暗示着静态的休息，而不是任何持续的辩证。公园是成品艺术的成品景观。
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
在所有的谎言中，艺术是最不真实的。
Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.
在世界上所有的奇迹中，只有艺术能使人永生。
Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
当然，在美术课上，我是模特。
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
哦，文学，哦，光荣的艺术，它是如何吞噬我们骨髓的。它从我们身上挖出填充物，把我们扔到一边。唉!
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
旧艺术对新艺术的批评和新艺术对旧艺术的批评一样好。
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
水泥山墙上不可避免地矗立着一尊穿着廉价西装的男子铜像。
On the haunted staircase of life, art is the only step that doesn't creak.
在人生的阴魂不散的阶梯上，艺术是唯一不会嘎吱作响的阶梯。
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
再一次，我认为几乎没有什么艺术作品真正拥有如此强烈的可能性。
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
一旦你决定艺术是重要的，而不是你有多受欢迎和欢迎，你就不再有信天翁了。
One can build from ordinary stone a humble house or the finest chateau.
一个人可以用普通的石头建造一座简陋的房子或一座最好的城堡。