【英汉对照】英语谚语与名人名言集锦:Literature and Arts

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.

— Stendhal, French writer

一部小说犹如一面在大街上行走的镜子。

—— 法国作家 司汤达

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

Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

— Da Vinci, Italian painter

一个借着引经据典来辩论的人，不是在运用自己的才智，他是在运用自己的记忆力。

—— 画家 达·芬奇

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

— Picasso, Spanish painter

美术是揭示真理的谎言。

—— 西班牙画家 毕加索

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

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

— Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer

艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。

—— 俄国作家 列夫·托尔斯泰

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 苏珊·朗格

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。自然只让我们存在，而艺术创造我们的人类。

——诗人 弗里德里希·席勒

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

— Jack London, American writer

我写作只是为了增加自身的美。

—— 美国作家 杰克·伦敦

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

—Maurice de vlaminck, French painter）

好画犹如佳肴，只可意会，不可言传。

—— 法国画家 莫利斯·德·弗拉芒克

Literature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like.

— Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic

文学是一种理智之光，它和阳光一样，有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。

—— 英国作家、批评家 塞缪尔·约翰逊

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a peaking picture.

—Simonides, ancient Greek writer

画是无言之诗，诗是有声之画。

—— 古希腊作家 西蒙尼特斯

节选自《大学英语新概念阅读教程》（第二册）（主编 李华田，武汉大学出版社，2012年6月）