I conceive that to give pleasure is the highest end of any work of art, because the pleasure procured from any art is tonic, and transform the life into which it enters.

我以为给人带来乐趣乃是任何艺术作品的最高境界，因为从任何艺术中取得的乐趣是令人振奋的，而且使得进入艺术天地的人面貌为之一变。

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Thehumorous story is strictly a work of art--high and delicate art—and only anartist can tell it; but no art is necessary in telling the comic and the wittystory; anybody can do it.

幽默故事已经达到了艺术的高度，它是一种优雅的艺术——只有艺术家才能讲好一个幽默故事；但是讲滑稽故事或者智慧故事就不需要什么艺术；每个人都可以讲。

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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。

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He has also developed special kinds of paper to help people who work in the art and book industries.

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The butterfly is the perfect work of art because it is both a representation and alive. It has eyes on its wings.

这只蝴蝶是一个完美的艺术作品,因为它不但是画像，也是,鲜活的，它的翅膀上有眼睛。

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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

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"It seems axiomatic to me that the best response to a work of art is another work of art, " he said.

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So taken with our enthusiasm are the owners, mother, father and son, that chocolate work of art after chocolate work of art is paraded in front of us: my favourite are the nuts and screws that actually work.

BBC: Postcard from Southeast Sicily

Uninhibited about sex, generous in her affections, worldly-wise, blending solemn or tender recollections with self-deprecating antics, Varda, seemingly freed from fear and shame by age and honors, goes far beyond a tale of life lived in art and makes a work of art in its own right, one of her best a poignant, rapturously emotional tribute to life itself.

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