【英漢對照】英語諺語與名人名言集錦: Art for Art's Sake
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
事物的美存在於細心觀察它的人們的頭腦中。
Music is the universal language of mankind.
—Longfellow, American Poet
音樂是全人類的共通語言。
——美國詩人 朗費羅
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
音樂是醫治心靈創傷的良藥。
Music is the most enthralling phenomenon in the world.
音樂是世界上最迷人的一種事物。
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
詩歌比歷史更接近於事實真相。
Art is long, and time is fleeting.
—Longfellow, American poet.
藝術是永恆的，時間則是瞬息即逝的。
——美國詩人 朗費羅
The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker
風景屬於看風景的人。
——美國思想家 愛默生
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it!
—Robert Motherwell, American painter
藝術遠沒有生活重要，但是沒有藝術生活是多麼乏味呀！
——美國畫家 馬赦韋爾
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced.
—Len Tolstoy, Russian writer
藝術不是手藝，它是藝術家體驗到的感情的傳遞。
——俄國作家 托爾斯泰
Speech was given to man to express his thought.
—Moliere , French playwright
語言賦予人類是為了表達思想。
——法國劇作家 莫里哀
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
——Mark Twain
偉大著作是由其風格和內容來衡量的，而不是其語法的修飾和多變。
——美國作家 馬克·吐溫
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
妙想就像在外流浪的孩子，會在你最意想不到的時候出現。
Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.
回憶是層層漣漪中出現的夢。
Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought.
—Susanne Langer, American philosopher
藝術是感情的模製品，猶如語言是思想的模製品。
——美國哲學家 蘭格
A picture is a poem without words.
—Horace, ancient Roman poet
一幅畫是一首沒有文字的詩歌。
——古羅馬詩人 賀拉斯
Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men.
—Friedrich Schiller, German poet
藝術是自然的右手。後者只是使我們存在，而前者使我們成為人類。
——德國詩人 弗里德里希·席勒
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art give it some.
—Jean Anouilh, Spanish playwright
生活是美好的，但它缺少形式，藝術的目標正是給生活某種形式。
——法國劇作家 阿努伊
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
有些畫家把太陽畫成一個黃斑，但有些畫家藉助於他們的技巧和智慧把黃斑畫成太陽。
——西班牙畫家 畢加索
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
—Emerson，American Author
眼睛是畫家，耳朵是歌唱家。
——美國作家 愛默生
When one loves one's art no service seems too hard.
—O.Henry, American novelist
一旦熱愛藝術，什麼奉獻也不難。
——美國小說家 歐·享利
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
—Samuel Johnson
沒有人能通過模仿別人而成名。
——英國作家 塞繆爾·約翰遜
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
笑是掃盡心靈中蜘蛛網的刷子。
What is art but a way of seeing?
藝術不是一種觀察方式是什麼？
節選自《大學英語新概念閱讀教程》（第三冊）（主編 李華田，武漢大學出版社，2012年6月）
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