Art
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight
——P. B. Shelley， British poet
伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。
——英国诗人P.B雪莱
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
——Stendhcl， French writer
一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。
——法国作家司汤达
A picture is a poem without words.
——Horace， Ancient Roman poet
一幅画是一首没有文字的诗歌。
——古罗马诗人贺拉斯
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
——E.de Goncourt， French writer
诗人是这样的人，他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。
——法国作家E.龚古尔
A poet is born， not made.
——L. A. Florus， Ancient Roman poet
诗人靠天分，不是靠培养。
——古罗马诗人L.A弗洛鲁
Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence； he is just using his memory.
——Da Vinci， Italian painter
一个借着引经据典来辩论的人，不是在运用自己的才智，他是在运用自己的记忆力。
——意大利画家达·芬奇
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
——Picasso， Spanish painter
美术是揭示真理的谎言。
——西班牙画家毕加索
Art is long， and time is fleeting.
——Longfellow， American poet
艺术是永恒的，时间则是瞬息即逝的。
——美国诗人朗费罗
Art is much less important than life， but what a poor life without it！
——Robert Moherwell， American painter
艺术远没有生活重要，但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀！
——美国画家R.马赫韦尔
Art is not a handicraft， it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced.
——Len Tolstoy， Russian writer
艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。
——俄国作家L.托尔斯泰
Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought.
——S. K. Langer， American philosopher and educator
艺术是感情的模制品，犹如语言是思想的模制品。
——美国哲学家、教育家S.K.兰格
Art is the object of feeling， and the subject of nature.
——S.K.Langer， American philosopher and educator
艺术是情感的客观表现，也是本性的主观反映。
——美国哲学家、教育家S.K.兰格
Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being， but the former made us men.
——Friedrich Schiller， German poet
艺术是自然的右手。自然只让我们存在，而艺术创造我们的人类。
——德国诗人F.席勒
Good painting is like good cooking， it can be tasted， but not explained.
——Maurice de vlaminck ， French painter
好画犹如佳肴，只可意会，不可言传。
——法国画家M.弗拉曼克
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
——Ezra Poud， American poet
简单地说，伟大的文学就是包涵极其丰富意义的语言。
——美国诗人E.庞德
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
——Mark Twain， American novelist
幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。
——美国小说家马克·吐温
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains.
——Victor Hugo， French writer
音乐要用心灵去听，用头脑去感觉。
——法国作家V.雨果
Jazz tickles your muscles， symphonies stretch your soul.
——Paul Whiteman， American conductor
爵士乐使你的肌肉发痒，交响乐能舒展你的灵魂。
——美国指挥家P.怀特曼
Literature is a kind of intellectual light， which， like the light of the sun， may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like.
——Samuse Johnson， British writer and critic
文学是一种理智之光，它和阳光一样，有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。
——英国作家、批评家S.约翰逊
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast， to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
——William Congreve， British dramatist
音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。
——英国剧作家W.康格里夫
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
——John Erskine， American educator
音乐是唯一不能用及表达卑鄙的或讽刺的事物的语言。
——美国教育家J.厄斯金
Painting is silent poetry， and poetry is a speaking picture.
——Simonides， Ancient Greek writer
画是无言之诗，诗是有声之画。
——古希腊作家西蒙尼特斯
Rules and modesty destroy genius and art.
——William Hazlitt， British essayist
规则与谦逊会毁掉天才和艺术。
——英国散文家W.哈兹里特
Satire is a sort of glass， wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face their own.
——Jonathan Swift， British writer
讽刺是一面镜子，观看者通常从中看到每一个人的面容却看不到自己。
——英国作家J.斯威夫特
Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have.
——Aesop， Ancient Greek fable writer
吃不到葡萄的人说葡萄酸。
——古希腊寓言作家伊索
Speech is a mirror of the soul； as a man speaks， so is he.
——Ephraem Syrus， American writer
语言是心灵的镜子；一个人只要说话，他说的话就是他的心灵的镜子。
——美国作家E.塞拉斯
Sunshine can burn you， food can poison you， words can condemn you， pictures caninsult you； music cannot punish——only bless.
——Arthur Schnabel， Austrian pianist
阳光可能炙烤你，食品可能毒害你，言语可能诅咒你，图画可能侮辱你——音乐不会处罚你只会祝福你。
——奥地利钢琴家A.施纳贝尔
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation； the two keep in their downward tendency.
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe， German poet
文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。
——德国诗人J.W.歌德
The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it.
——Ralph Waldo Emerson， American thinker
风景属于看风景的人。
——美国思想家R.W.爱默生
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.
——John Ruskin， American writer and critic
爱美是健康人性的重要组成部分。
——美国作家、批评家J.罗斯金
The poetˊs voice need not merely be the record of man， it can be one of the props， the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
——William Fulkner， American writer
诗人的声音不应只是人类的记录，而应是使人类永存并得到胜利的支柱和栋梁。
——美国作家W.福克纳
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that， its use is for life， and its aim is not beauty but goodness.
——Somerset Maugham， British novelist and dramatist
文化的价值在于它对人类品性的影响。除非文化能使品性变为高尚、有力。文化的作用在于裨益人生，它的目标不是美，而是善。
——英国小说家和戏剧家S.毛姆
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot， but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.
——Picasso， Spanish painter
有些画家把太阳画成一个黄斑，但有些画家借助于他们的技巧和智慧把黄斑画成太阳。
——西班牙画家毕加索