艺术家

“The value of art is in the observer. When you find out what you like, you're really finding out about yourself.”

“艺术的价值在于观者。当你发现你喜欢什么时，你其实在发现你自己。”

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.”

“伟大的艺术是艺术家内在生命的外在表达。”

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

“未来，每个人都能成名十五分钟。”

“L'art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité.”

“艺术是让我们认识真理的谎言。”

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”

“一面墙是一件非常大的武器。它是你能用来打击别人的最恶毒的东西之一。”

“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”

“艺术不是再现可见之物，而是使不可见之物变得可见。”

“Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.”

“忘掉自己。与永恒合一。成为环境的一部分。”

“Pies, ¿para qué los quiero si tengo alas pa' volar?”

“脚，我要你们做什么？我有翅膀可以飞翔。”

“六才にして物の形状を写すの癖ありて”

“从六岁起，我就痴迷于描画事物的形态。到五十岁时，我已发表了无数作品，但我七十岁之前所做的一切都不值一提。”

“All art is erotic.”

“所有的艺术都是情色的。”

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.”

“我梦想的是一种平衡、纯净和宁静的艺术，没有令人不安或压抑的主题。”

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”

“绘画从根本上说与史前时代并无不同。它将人与世界联系在一起。它因魔力而存在。”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“每个人都讨论我的艺术，假装理解它，好像理解是必要的——其实只需要热爱就够了。”

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”

“我们所见的一切都隐藏着另一样东西，我们总想看到被所见之物隐藏的东西。”

“Il più nobile piacere è la gioia di comprendere.”

“最高尚的快乐是理解的喜悦。”

“Art is a guarantee of sanity.”

“艺术是理智的保证。”

“Choose only one master—Nature.”

“只选择一位老师——自然。”

“I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”

“我只对表达人类的基本情感感兴趣——悲剧、狂喜、厄运等等。”

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

“我强迫自己自相矛盾，以避免屈从于自己的趣味。”

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing.”

“最难的事是做一件接近于无的事。”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“我在大理石中看到了天使，于是不断雕刻直到将他释放。”

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time.”

“没有人真正看见一朵花；它太小了。我们没有时间，而看见需要时间。”

“I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.”

“我工作的时候不去想艺术。我试着去想生活。”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“超现实主义是破坏性的，但它只摧毁那些它认为束缚我们视野的枷锁。”

“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”

“色彩是一种直接影响灵魂的力量。”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“如果我们没有勇气去尝试任何事情，生活将会怎样？”