Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

如果生活沒有了樂趣，那將是一場悲劇。。

-Stephen Hawking 英國物理學家

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

我想成為我自己，只是我自己。

- Brigitte Bardot

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

只有溫和的人才是真正強大的。

-James Dean 美國男演員

I think it is very important for people to run away...from home, from the mainstream, from their family, from the culture, from the society that produced them...because the moment I have to learn something new, like new habits, new languages, I myself have something like a rebirth. I reduce myself to the lowest denominator and this is very healthy for an artist. To start all over again.

我認為逃跑對人們來說是很重要的……從家里逃跑，從主流逃跑，從他們的家庭逃跑，逃離文化，也逃離產生他們的社會……因為這個時刻我必須學習一些新的東西，比如新的習慣，新的語言，我自己就有一個重生的東西。我把自己降到了最低水平，這對一個藝術家來說是非常健康的。學著從頭再來。

--Saul Steinberg??索爾·斯坦伯格，美國藝術家

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

愿你的選擇反映了你的希望，而不是你的恐懼。

-Nelson Mandela?納爾遜·曼德拉，南非總統

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

在我活著的時候送我花。我死了以后它們對我一點好處都沒有。

-Joan Crawford 美國女星

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.

如果它不是一個挑戰，就無法改變你。

-Bette Davis 美國演員

When I say 'hero', do not picture someone with the strength to fight and conquer evil - because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans. But while it can't be defeated... it can be controlled. In order to control it, and live the life of a true hero, you must learn to see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

當我說“英雄”時，不要去想象一個有超能力戰勝邪惡的人，因為邪惡并不是可以被征服或擊敗的東西。邪惡是很自然的。它是人類與生俱來的。但是，雖然它不能被擊敗……卻可以被控制。為了控制它，并做一個真正的英雄，你必須學會用不被仇恨蒙蔽的雙眼去看世界。在邪惡中看到善良，善良中發現邪惡。不要偏袒任何一方，但發誓保持善惡之間的平衡。

-Hayao Miyazaki 日本動漫作家

Stories come out from where we live and what we hear and see and feel, so I don't know what will come next. It's like fishing: You just wait...It's like I always say, "The chef cooks the fish, the chef doesn't make the fish." Desire is the bait, the fish is caught, and then the chef cooks it. Ideas are like fish. They just come to you sometimes, and when you're really lucky, you fall in love with them and know exactly what to do.

故事來源于我們生活的地方，我們聽到的，看到的，感受到的東西。因此我們不知道接下來會發生什么。這就像是釣魚：你只是等待...就像我經常說的：“廚師烹飪魚，但他們不能制造魚?！庇拖袷囚~餌，魚被捉住了，廚師烹飪它。想法就像魚，他們有時候來到你身邊。當你真正幸運的時候，你愛上他們，然后知道自己具體要做些什么。

- David Lynch

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

所有的孩子都是藝術家。問題在于如何在他們長大之后依然是一名藝術家。

-Pablo Picasso?巴勃羅·畢加索，西班牙藝術家

Well I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It's a wheel...you get on, you have to go to the end, and then somebody else takes their place.?

我認為沒什么事情是永恒的。我們必須給其他人騰出位置。就像是一個車輪......你向前推進，你終將走向結束，然后其他人會占據你的位置。

-Vivian Maier 攝像師

No matter how long you work, it's always going to end sometime. And there's always going to be things left undone. And it doesn't matter if you lived until you were seventy-five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have accomplished. You could work for several lifetimes... Part of the reason that I'm not having trouble facing the reality of death is that it's not a limitation, in a way. It could have happend any time, and it is going to happen sometime. If you live your life according to that, death is irrelevant. Everything I'm doing right now is exactly what I want to do.

無論你工作多長時間，最終都會有結束的時候。到那時候總會有還未完成的事。你能否活到七十五歲也無所謂。新的想法總是會出現?？偸菚心切┠阆胱鰠s未能完成的事。你可以有好幾輩子的時間來工作...我不害怕面對死亡的原因之一在于死亡并不是一種限制。它什么時候都可能會發生，而且它將來一定會發生。如果你好好過日子，死亡一點也不重要。我當下做的每一件事都是我現在想做的事。

-Keith Haring

Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.

死亡賦予生命意義，讓你知道時光短暫，去日不多。

-The Ancient One（古一）, fromDoctor Strange

Where is the real? All appearance are deceitful, the visible surface is deceptive. I look at my hand...it is nerves, muscles, bones. Let us go deeper: it is molecules and acids. Further still: it is an impalpable waltz of electrons and neutrons. Further still: an immaterial nebula. Who can prove that my hand exists?

什么是真實？所有的表象都是虛偽，可以看見的表面都是假的。我看著我的手...它是神經、肌肉、骨頭。讓我們看得更深一點：它是分子和酸。更深一點：它是無形的電子和中子。更深一點：一種非物質的星云。誰可以證明我手的存在？

- Salvador Dali

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

很多人都害怕表達他們想要什么。這就是為什么他們最終得不到自己想要的。

- Madonna

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get...only what you are expecting to give - which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

愛情和你期待得到的東西無關...它是你想要給予的東西，所有的東西。你得到回報的方式有很多種，但它們和你的給予都毫無關系。你付出因為你愛，因此情不自禁的付出。

- Katharine Hepburn

A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.

一個安靜而樸素的生活帶來的喜悅遠遠大于無休止地對成功的追求。

-Albert Einstein 德國物理學家

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso.

當我還是個孩子的時候，母親對我說：“如果你成為一名士兵，你將會成為一個將軍。如果你成為一名僧人，你就會成為教皇”。結果，我選擇當一個畫家，而我成為了畢加索。

-Pablo Picasso 西班牙畫家

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

沒有什么是絕對的。一切都在變，一切都在動，一切都在運轉，一切都會最終消逝。

-Frida Kahlo 墨西哥畫家

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