Pottery is an art form that grew out of the daily needs of life.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

no notation, everybody sits there sort of mummified, waiting for this great work of art to come back to life.

没有乐谱,每个人跟木乃伊一样坐在那里,等待着伟大的作品再现人间

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I know why the mix again, you have the religious figures, you have the art, the writers, life of the mind, and you have the musical.

我知道为什么你能将这些宗教人物，艺术者，作家，精神生活，以及音乐剧融合起来了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The street art movement depends on the energy and life of the city.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

I think of nineteenth-century art as being horizontal and stretched out like agricultural life in New England.

我觉得19世纪的艺术应该是,水平的，就像新英格兰伸展开来的农业。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"So many of the things in this movie were art imitating life for me." "Because I had just gone through the pregnancy it was really fresh in my mind.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Welles presented it. He'll say no. It's a work of art. I find it exhilarating. So if you are an artist, you can always have an happy life dedicating yourself to your art.

威尔斯这般表达，他将对之说不,这只是个艺术活，我觉得它令人愉快,因此如果你是个艺术家，你就总能拥有,快乐的生活，全身心地投入到艺术中去。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选