“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. “

Aristotle

「艺术的目标不是代表事物的外表，

是它们内在的意义。」

亚里士多德

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Paul Gauguin

「为了看得见，

我闭上了我的眼睛。」

保罗·高更

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

Paul Klee

「艺术不是再仿造可见的；

它令不可见的可见。」

保罗·克莱

“Vita brevis, ars longa.”  (Life short; art long.)

Hippocrates

「生命短逝，艺术长久。」

希波克拉特斯

“Your work, Sir, is both new and good, but what's new is not good and what's good is not new.”

Samuel Johnson

「您的工作，先生，既新又好，

但是新的不是好的，

好的不是新的。」

塞缪尔·约翰逊

“Art cannot be modern, art is timeless.”

Egon Schiele

「艺术无可能有现代的，

艺术是永恒的。」

埃贡·席勒

“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.”

Roy Adzak

「好的艺术不是它的貌相，

而是它怎样影响着我们。」

罗伊·亚扎

“Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. ”

Jaques Lipchitz

「艺术是反对死亡的行动; 

它是死亡的否定。」

雅克·里普希茨

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

Pablo Picasso

「艺术是清除不必要的。」

巴伯罗·毕加索

“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. ”

Leo Tolstoy

「艺术并不是乐趣、安慰、或者娱乐；

艺术是一个重大的事情。」

托尔斯泰

“Solemn is art; jovial is life.”

Kurt Schwitters

「艺术是庄严的；人生是欢乐。」

库尔特·史威特士

“Solemn is life; jovial is art. ”

Friedrich von Schiller

「人生是严肃的；艺术是喜乐。」

弗里德里希·席勒

“Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life. ”

Remy de Gourmont

「艺术是生命之花，像种子，它以生命归还。」

里米·德·古尔蒙

“The beautiful is a manifestation of ，sacred laws of nature.”

Goethe

「美，是大自然之a神圣法则的显现。」

歌德

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings,

There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Study the monochord.”

Pythagoras

「在弦线哼唱中，有几何，

在星球间距中，有音乐。

钻研单弦琴。」

毕达哥拉斯

“There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. ”

Georges Vantongerloo

「艺术没有根据大自然来表达的需要;

艺术能完美地依据几何学和精密科学表达出来。」

乔治·万顿吉罗

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”

Bertrand Russell

「准确地看，数学不仅仅具有真理，它无上的美，像雕塑般的冷和严肃的美，不唤醒我们的任何弱点、没有绘画或音乐的华丽诱捕，但崇高地纯净、仅仅是最伟大的艺术才能显示出的庄严完美。」

伯特兰·罗素

“When the colors work together, they have an amazing sound, like a good chorus in harmony.”

Aleksander Titovets

「当颜色在一起工作的时候，他们有一个令人惊讶的声音，好像是一个优良的和谐的合唱团。」

亚历山大·铁托威斯

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.”

Andre Gide

「艺术是上帝和艺术家之间的合作，

艺术家做得越少，越好。」

安德烈·纪德

“You must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”

John F. Kennedy

「您绝不可以忘记，艺术不是宣传；

它是真理。」

约翰·肯尼迪

“All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple.

Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.”

Iris Murdoch

「一切[真正]艺术

都在对付荒谬、旨向简单。

良好的艺术表达真理，

实际上是真理，

或许唯一的真理。」

伊利斯·默多克

“In the beginning of human evolution the poets were prophets and priests. Art served the gods. But as civilization developed, art, along with human activities in general, separated from religion. Artists who had formerly been servants of the gods considered art itself as their idol. Priests of pure art were born who regarded the perfection of artistic form the most important factor….

Modern artists will not and cannot serve pure beauty or seek only for content. However, since they have been estranged from the former religious content of art, they are now dependent on attempting to imitate reality slavishly and secondly, upon responding to the tastes of the public and changing morality.

Naturally it is easy to condemn the present trend of art, but this is unjust. Behind the façade of poor art of the present, the promise of divine greatness is hidden. The modern artist more or less consciously wishes his art to enlighten mankind. However, earlier art offered light and joy to humanity, but modern art draws attention to the evil in life. If art seeks to make the evil in life better, it is not sufficient today simply to work out of realism.”

Dostoevsky

「在人类演化之初，诗人是先知和祭司。艺术是为上帝而服务。但是当文明渐进，艺术和人的一般活动就与宗教分离了。以前，上帝的仆人—艺术家，把艺术视为他们的至尊。诞生了的纯艺术祭司，他们注重艺术形式的完美性为最重要的因素....

现代的艺术家不愿意、也无法，为纯美服务，亦并无仅仅追求它的内容。然而，因为他们疏远了以前在艺术中的宗教性内容，他们现在依赖于试图盲目地模仿现实，其次是依赖响应公众的口味，改变了道德。

谴责目前的艺术趋向当然是十分容易，但这是不公平的。在表面粗劣的艺术的背后，隐藏着伟大神圣的诺言。现代的艺术家多少是希望他的艺术能够启迪人类。然而，早期的艺术为人类带来亮光和喜悦，现代艺术注重人生中的邪恶。如果艺术试图改善人生的邪恶，仅仅工作于现实主义，今天是不足够的。」

陀思妥耶夫斯基

“Art is not a pastime but is priesthood.”

Jean Cocteau

「艺术不是一个消遣，

而是一个祭司状况。」

尚·考克多

“We have art so that we may not perish by the truth. ”

Friedrich Nietzsche

「我们有了艺术，是为了

让我们在真相中不被毁灭。」

弗里德里希·尼采

“If we wish to really grasp art we must never forget that in the world, the ultimate in art is the interplay of the beautiful with the ugly, the presentation of the battle of the beautiful with the ugly. For only by looking upon the state of equilibrium between the beautiful and the ugly do we stand within reality.”

Rudolf Steiner

「如果我们意愿真正地了解艺术，我们绝不可忘记：在这世界上，艺术最终是美与丑的互动，美丽与丑恶在交战中的表现，因为仅仅通过察视到美与丑之间的平衡状态，我们才是站于现实中。」

卢道夫·石太纳

“Art has often given the soul nourishment.  It has taken part in the role of helping to extend the space for the inner free-being.”

Richard von Weizsäcker

「艺术经常给予灵魂滋养，

它参与了一个角色：

帮助扩展内心之自由存在的空间。」

里夏德·魏茨泽克

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ”

Jean-Luc Godard

「艺术吸引着我们，

仅仅通过透露我们最秘密的自已。」

让－吕克·戈达尔

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.”

Raymond Chandler

「在一切可被称为艺术的，

里面都有一种拯救的性质。」

雷蒙德·钱德勒

“However much study may be devoted to the elimination of crime and wrong-doing in the world, true redemption – the turning of evil into good, will depend in the future on whether true art and architecture are able to generate a definite cultural atmosphere that can so fill the hearts and souls of human beings.  When they let this atmosphere influence them, liars will cease to lie and disturbers of peace will cease to disturb the peace of their fellow citizens.  Buildings will begin to speak; they will speak the language of which people today as yet have no inkling.

“Nowadays people gather at congresses to negotiate world peace.  They imagine that speaking and listening can actually create peace and harmony.  But peace and harmony, and conditions worthy of humanity, can only be established when it is the gods who speak to us.  When do gods speak to us?  We had better first ask: When do [the true] human beings speak to us?…… Human beings must learn to [let the gods] speak [through art and architecture]!”

Rudolf Steiner

「不论世界提供了多少排除罪恶和不道德行为的研究，真正的救赎 — 把邪恶转为善良 — 将取决于真正的艺术，以及建筑物能否确实带出一个可以填充人类心灵的文化气氛。当人被这气氛影响着，说谎者将停止说谎，打扰和平者将停止扰乱他们的同胞。建筑物将开始用一种人类到目前为止还没有概念的言语表达。

「如今人们聚集在谈判世界和平的会议上。他们以为讨论和倾听就能建立和平与和谐。但是仅仅在上天向我们说话的时候，一个和平、和谐、和有人类价值的状况才能建立。上天甚么时候会向我们说话啊？我们最好先问：「真正的人」甚么时候会向我们说话？…人需必学习让上天[人上人]透过艺术和建筑说话！」

卢道夫·石太纳

“Beauty is not a luxury, but a necessity to human life, when it is realized not as superficial aesthetics, but as God’s love, shining through!”

“Thought for the day” Radio Four

「当一个人体会到「美」并不是表面上的美感，而是上帝的爱，透过它光芒四射，

「美」不再是一种奢侈品，而是人生的必需！」

「今天的思潮」收音第四台

“Art is, the art of awaking faith.”

Aristotle

「艺术，是一种唤醒信念的艺术。」

亚里士多德

“Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.”

Henry Moore

「艺术不是找出一条实用的生计，

而是活出丰富的人生。」

亨利·摩尔

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

Thomas Merton

「艺术使我们发现自己，同时脱离自己。」

托马斯·默顿

“Do not forget, that art is only a path, not a goal.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

「不要忘记艺术只是一条道路，

不是一个目标。」

里尔克

“Art cannot be taught - but the way to art, yes.”

Max Beckmann

「艺术是不可教的，但作为一条寻找的路径，可教。」

马克斯·贝克曼

“The secret of art lies therein, that one does not seek, but finds.”

Pablo Picasso

「艺术的秘密在于在不寻找中发现。」

巴伯罗·毕加索

“For a painter there is nothing more difficult than to paint a rose, in doing so, firstly he must forget all the roses that were ever painted.”

Henri Matisse

「对于一个画家，没有甚么可以比画一朵玫瑰更难的事，为它，他必须首先完全忘记所有曾经被他画过的玫瑰。」

亨利·马谛斯

“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”

Jackson Polock

「画是有自己的生命的。

我尝试让它显示出来。」

杰克森·波洛克

“Great art picks up where Nature ends.”

Marc Chagall

「伟大的艺术，

开始于大自然结束的地方。」

马克·夏卡尔

“My art is my wife, for it has more than enough tormented me lifelong.  And my children are the works that I leave behind.  Even if they should not be of much use, they will be living yet awhile.”

Michelangelo

「我的艺术是我的妻子，她超出足够地折磨了我的一生。我的孩子是我遗留的作品。既使他们没有多大用途，他们还会继续生存一会儿。」

米开朗基罗·波纳罗蒂

“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

Vincent Van Gogh

我认为艺术就是心灵和情感的强烈碰撞产生的火花和灵感，在瞬间把她通过某种艺术形式再现出来，这是现象中的艺术；那么对于人类内心深层的灵魂和终极真理有所觉知和悟道的，言语是无法说清楚的，那么艺术家会借助平面、立体、空间以及现代媒材来呈现自我和内心世界对万千宇宙的领悟、乃至社会担当、责任和良知，以唤醒那些沉睡的没有觉悟和良知的愚钝灵魂。一旦你读懂现象后面的真实内在和大格局思考，你将叹为观止艺术的震撼力、享受喜乐和创造的美或者还有更复杂的人性等！

美术教育、自由画家自我修行者--李江云http://www/uc/myshow/blog/misc/gif/E___6708EN00SIGG.gif

「告诉您，我越想越是感觉到，

没什么比爱人类更真实的艺术。」

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