Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

开始前好好想想，然后投入工作。

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

思考不是一件可以自我撤销的事情。它永远不能成为自己的解决方案。

This is Art holding a mirror up to life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

这是一种艺术，把一面镜子照向生活。这就是为什么所有的事情都是完全相反的。

This is not to pretend that reading is a passive act. On the contrary, it is highly creative, or re-creative; itself an art.

这并不是说阅读是一种被动的行为。相反，它是高度创造性的，或者说再创造性的;本身一种艺术。

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

这是艺术家唯一真正关心的，从生活的无序中重建出艺术的秩序。

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

这就是所谓的透视，这是一个骗局。

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

这整个创作本质上是主观的，梦是做梦者同时身处的剧场:场景、演员、提词员、舞台经理、作家、观众和评论家。

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

那些不想模仿任何东西的人，将一事无成。

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

你满了的地方，必须倒空，好叫你满了空的地方。

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

虽然生活不能从艺术中获得，但艺术使生活有价值。它让人挨饿，让人活着。

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

在我创作画布的整个过程中，我能感觉到我是如何开始爱上它的，那种源于缓慢理解的爱。

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

时间与死亡:这是艺术家在一切结束时的终极愿景。它就在那里。这不是我打算做的事。

Time is the great art of man.

时间是人类伟大的艺术。

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

对于一个真正的艺术家来说，只有那张美丽的脸，除了外表之外，还闪耀着灵魂深处的真理。

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

对任何一位名副其实的艺术家来说，自然界的一切都是美丽的，因为他的眼睛，无畏地接受所有外在的真理，在那里，就像在一本打开的书里，阅读所有内在的真理。