Life is very nice， but it lacks form. It's the aim of art give it some.

　　生活是美好的，但它缺少形式，艺术的目标正是给生活某种形式。——Jean Anouilh

　　Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

　　艺术是让我们意识到真理的诺言。

　　——Picasso

　　The test of a real comedian¹ is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

　　检验一个人是不是真正的喜剧家就是你是否在他未开口时就笑。

　　——G. J. Nathan

　　Speech was given to man to express his thought.

　　语言赋予人类是为了表达思想。

　　——Moliere

　　No man ever yet became great by imitation².

　　没有人能通过模仿别人而成名。

　　——Samuel Johnson

　　The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

　　眼睛是画家，耳朵是歌唱家。

　　——Emerson

　　Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter， and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.

　　伟大著作是由其风格和内容来衡量的，而不是其语法的修饰和多变。

　　——Mark Twain

　　Music is the universal language of mankind.

　　音乐是全人类的共通语言。

　　——Longfellow

　　Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

　　音乐是医治心灵创伤的良药。——A. Hunt

　　Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates³ them.

　　事物的美存在于细心观察它的人们的头脑中。——Hume

　　Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

　　笑是扫尽心灵中蜘蛛网的刷子。

　　——Mort Walker

　　What is art but a way of seeing？

　　艺术不是一种观察方式是什么？

　　——Thomas Berger

　　Music is the most enthralling⁴ phenomenon in the world.

　　音乐是世界上最迷人的一种事物。

　　——S.K.Langer

　　Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

　　诗歌比历史更接近于事实真相。

　　——Plato

　　Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.

　　回忆是层层涟漪中出现的梦。

　　——H. Sandburg

　　Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

　　妙想就像在外流浪的孩子，会在你最意想不到的时候出现。——Bern Williamsgg

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