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

VOA: special.2009.04.08

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

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

"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