[英汉对照]英语谚语和著名名言集： Art for Art's Sake

beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them。

事物的美在于细心观察它的人的头脑中。

Music is the universal language of mankind.

—Longfellow, American Poet

音乐是全人类的共通语言。

——美国诗人 朗费罗

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

音乐是医治心灵创伤的良药。

Music is the most enthralling phenomenon in the world.

音乐是世界上最迷人的一种事物。

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

诗歌比历史更接近于事实真相。

Art is long, and time is fleeting.

—Longfellow, American poet.

艺术是永恒的，时间则是瞬息即逝的。

——美国诗人 朗费罗

The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker

风景属于看风景的人。

——美国思想家 爱默生

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it!

—Robert Motherwell, American painter

艺术远没有生活重要，但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀！

——美国画家 马赦韦尔

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced.

—Len Tolstoy, Russian writer

艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家体验到的感情的传递。

——俄国作家 托尔斯泰

Speech was given to man to express his thought.

—Moliere , French playwright

语言赋予人类是为了表达思想。

——法国剧作家 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

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。

——美国作家 马克·吐温

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。

Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.

回忆是层层涟漪中出现的梦。

Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought.

—Susanne Langer, American philosopher

艺术是感情的模制品，犹如语言是思想的模制品。

——美国哲学家 兰格

A picture is a poem without words.

—Horace, ancient Roman poet

一幅画是一首没有文字的诗歌。

——古罗马诗人 贺拉斯

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men.

—Friedrich Schiller, German poet

艺术是自然的右手。后者只是使我们存在，而前者使我们成为人类。

——德国诗人 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，艺术的目标正是给生活某种形式。

——法国剧作家 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

有些画家把太阳画成一个黄斑，但有些画家借助于他们的技巧和智慧把黄斑画成太阳。

——西班牙画家 毕加索

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

—Emerson，American Author

眼睛是画家，耳朵是歌唱家。

——美国作家 爱默生

When one loves one's art no service seems too hard.

—O.Henry, American novelist

一旦热爱艺术，什么奉献也不难。

——美国小说家 欧·享利

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

—Samuel Johnson

没有人能通过模仿别人而成名。

——英国作家 塞缪尔·约翰逊

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。

What is art but a way of seeing?

艺术不是一种观察方式是什么？

节选自《大学英语新概念阅读教程》（第三册）（主编 李华田，武汉大学出版社，2012年6月）