艺术之语

太初时

大地之灵

来到太空之灵

恳求祂说

我能让人的灵说话

但是

为了让宇宙的心

也能向人的心说话的

那种语言

我恳求你

于是

善良的太空之灵

向恳求中的大地之灵

赐予艺术

– 石太纳

Die Sprache der Kunst

Im Urzeit Tagen

Trat zum Geist des Himmels

Der Geist des Erdenseins.

Bittend sprach er:

Ich weiβ zu reden

Mit dem Menschengeist;

Doch um jene Sprache auch

Flehe ich,

Durch die zu reden weiβ

Das Weltenherz zum Menschenherzen.

Da schenkte der güt’ge Himmelsgeist

Dem bittenden Erdengeist:

Die Kunst.

– Rudolf Steiner

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Paul Gauguin

「为了能看到，

我闭上我的眼睛。」

保罗·高更

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

Paul Klee

「艺术不是把可见的再次仿造；

而是让不可见的成为可见。」

保罗·克莱

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

Aristotle

「艺术的目标不是来代表事物的外表，

而是它们的内在意义。」

亚里士多德

“Great art picks up where Nature ends.”

Marc Chagall

「伟大的艺术始于大自然结束之处。」

马克·夏卡尔

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

Goethe

「“美”，

是大自然背后的神圣法则之呈现。」

歌德

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings,

There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Study the monochord.”

Pythagoras

「在弦线的哼唱中有几何，

在星球间距中有音乐。

钻研单弦琴吧。」

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

「无需通过自然来表达艺术;

艺术能完美地通过几何学及精密的科学来表达。」

乔治·万顿吉罗

“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，

艺术不是一种宣扬；

它是真理的形状。」

约翰·肯尼迪

“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

「数学，准确地看它，不仅具真理，而具无上的美、像雕塑那样的冷靜和严肃的美。它不会唤醒我们的任何弱点，也没有绘画或音乐的华丽诱捕，但崇高地纯清。它的庄严完美，是最伟大的艺术才能显示。」

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，它们有一个美妙的声音，好像一个在和谐中的优良合唱团。」

亚历山大·铁托威斯

“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

「“美”不是一种奢侈，而是人生的必需，

当人体会到“美”

并不意味表面上的美学，

而是上帝的爱，透过它而光芒四射！」

「今天的思潮」收音第四台

“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

「如果我们希望真正地明白艺术，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，因为只当我们察视到美与丑之间的平衡状态时，我们才是站在现实中。」

儒道夫·石太纳

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

Hippocrates

「生命短逝，艺术长久。」

希波克拉特斯

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

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

Iris Murdoch

「一切艺术都在处理荒谬、旨向简单。

优良的艺术表达真理，

实际上，它就是真理，

或许唯一的真理。」

伊利斯·默多克

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

Pablo Picasso

「艺术就是把不必要的都清除掉。」

巴伯罗·毕加索

“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

“Art cannot be modern, art is timeless.”

Egon Schiele

「艺术不可能有现代的;

艺术是永恒的。」

埃贡·席勒

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

Samuel Johnson

「先生，您的工作既新又好，

可是新的不是就好，

好的就不是新的。」

塞缪尔·约翰逊

“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

「无论世界为了排除罪恶和不道德行为作出多少研究，真正的救赎 — 把邪恶转为善良 — 将取决于真正的艺术和建筑物能否带出一个确实可以滋养人类心灵的文化气氛。当人被这种气氛影响，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任何概念的言语来表达。

今天，人们聚集在会议上为世界和平谈话。他们以为讨论和倾听就能建立和平及和谐。可是只当上天向我们说话的时候，和平与和谐、和具有人类价值的状况，才能建立起来。上天甚么时候会向我们说话呢？我们最好先问：甚么时候真正“人”的会向我们说话？…人们必需学习让上天透过艺术和建筑来说话！」

儒道夫·石太纳

（上天的艺术譬如是：各国古代建筑物，尤其在中国的，还有欧洲的Gothic式大教堂和第一所歌德馆等、来自古希腊和Henry Moore的雕塑、文艺复兴时的画、伟大音乐家的古典音乐、歌德和Rilke的诗、真正的元舞，这些都可被称为神圣。）

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

Max Beckmann

「艺术是教不了的，但作为一条寻找的路径，可行。」

马克斯·贝克曼

“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

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

Pablo Picasso

「艺术的秘密在于：在不去寻找中，发现。」

巴伯罗·毕加索

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

Jackson Polock

「画，是有它自己的生命的。

我尝试让它显示出来。」

杰克森·波洛克

“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，为了做这个，他首先必需忘掉所有他曾经画过的玫瑰。」

亨利·马谛斯

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

Thomas Merton

「艺术使我们发现自己，

同时摆脱自己。」

托马斯·默顿

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

Jean-Luc Godard

「艺术仅通过透露我们最秘密的自已

来吸引我们。」

让－吕克·戈达尔

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

Henry Moore

「艺术不是一条实用的生计，

而是能活出丰富的人生。」

亨利·摩尔

“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，

它参与的角色，

是帮助内心的自由存在，

来扩展其空间。」

里夏德·魏茨泽克

“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，她比足够还多地把我折磨了一生。我的孩子是我留下来的作品。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

“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

“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

都有一种救赎的性质。」

雷蒙德·钱德勒

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

Leo Tolstoy

「艺术不是一种乐趣、安慰、或娱乐；

艺术是一重大事。」

托尔斯泰

“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，它给予生命。」

里米·德·古尔蒙

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

Jaques Lipchitz

「艺术是一个反抗死亡的行动;

它是死亡的否定。」

雅克·里普希茨

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

「我们被赋予艺术，

是为了不让我们在真相中被毁灭。」

弗里德里希·尼采

“Art is, the art of awaking faith.”

Aristotle

「艺术，是一种唤醒信念的渠道。」

亚里士多德

“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

「在人类演进之初，先知和祭司都是诗人，艺术在为上帝服务，但当文明渐进，艺术以及人类的一般活动就与宗教分离了。以前是作为上帝的仆人的艺术家们，他们把艺术视为他们的至尊。纯艺术的祭司诞生了，他们视艺术形式的完美为最重要因素....

现代的艺术家不愿意，亦无法，为纯美服务，也无法寻找它的内容。可是，因为他们疏远了以前的艺术宗教性内容，现在，他们依赖于试图盲目的模仿现实，然后是依赖其向公众口味和道德改变的响应。

谴责目前的艺术趋向当然是很容易，但这是不公平的。在这粗劣艺术表面的背后隐藏着伟大的神圣诺言。现代的艺术家总会带着希望，愿他的艺术能启迪人类，可是，早期的艺术为人类带来亮光和喜悦，现代的艺术注重人生中的邪恶。如果艺术寻求改善人生的邪恶，今天仅出于现实主义的工作是不足够的。」

陀思妥耶夫斯基

“Art is not a pastime but is priesthood.”

Jean Cocteau

「艺术不是一种消遣，

而是一种祭司的职务。」

尚·考克多

“Solemn is art; jovial is life.”

Kurt Schwitters

「艺术是庄严的；

人生是欢乐的。」

库尔特·史威特士

“Solemn is life; jovial is art. ”

Friedrich von Schiller

「人生是严肃的；艺术是喜乐的。」

弗里德里希·席勒

“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

「我告诉您，我越想越感觉到，

没什么艺术是比“爱人类”更为真实。」

文森特·凡·高

“As art is a path, then can we consider all that we do as a kind of art?”

Wenhuan

「艺术是一条道路，那么我们可否认为我们所做的一切，都是艺术？」

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