A poet is born, not made. (L.A.Florus, Ancient Roman poet)

　　詩人靠天分，不是靠培養(yǎng)。(古羅馬詩人 弗洛魯 L A)

　　Art is a lie that tells the truth. (Picasso, Spanish painter)

　　美術是揭示真理的謊言。(西班牙畫家 畢加索)

　　Art is long, and time is fleeting. (Longfellow, American poet)

　　藝術是永恒的，時間則是瞬息即逝的。(美國詩人 朗費羅)

　　Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it ! (Robert Motherwell, American painter)

　　藝術遠沒有生活重要，但是沒有藝術生活是多么乏味呀!(美國畫家 馬赦韋爾 R)

　　Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. (Len Tolstoy, Russian writer)

　　藝術不是手藝，它是藝術家的體驗到的感情的傳遞。(俄國作家托爾斯泰。L)

　　Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. (Susanne Langer, American philosopher)

　　藝術是感情的模制品，猶如語言是思想的模制品。(美國哲學家 蘭格 S)

　　Art is the object of feeling, and the subject of nature. (S.K.langer, American philosopher and educator)

　　藝術是情感的客觀表現(xiàn)。也是本性的主觀反映。(美國哲學家、教育家 蘭格 S K)

　　Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. (Friedrich Schiller, German poet)

　　藝術是自然的右手。自然只讓我們存在，而藝術創(chuàng)造我們的人類。(德國詩人 席勒 F)

　　Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travel. (Theocore Dreser, American novelist)

　　好畫猶如佳肴，只可意會，不可言傳。(法國畫家 弗拉曼克 M)

　　Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authourity is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (Da Vinci, Italian painter)

　　一個借著引經據典來辯論的人，不是在運用自己的才智，他是在運用自己的記憶力。(意大利畫家 達·芬奇)

　　Good painting is like good cooking; it ca n be tasted, but not explained. (Maurice de vlaminck, French painter)

　　簡單地說，偉大的文學就是包涵極其豐富意義的語言。(美國詩人 龐德 E)

　　Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree (Ezra Poud, American poet)

　　幽默被人正確地解釋為“以誠摯表達感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美國詩人 龐德 E)

　　Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (Mark Twain, American novelist)

　　我寫作只是為了增加自身的美。(美國作家 杰克·倫敦)

　　I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. (Jack London, American writer)

　　音樂要用心靈去聽，用頭腦去感覺。(法國作家 雨果 V)

　　In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains. Victor Hugo, French writer Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. (PaulWhiteman, American conductor)

　　爵士樂使你的肌肉發(fā)癢，交響樂能舒展你的靈魂。(美國指揮家 懷特曼 P)

　　iterature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like. (Samuse Johnson, British writer and critic)

　　文學是一種理智之光，它和陽光一樣，有時能使我們看到我們不喜歡的東西。(英國作家、批評家 約翰遜 S)

　　Love and scandale the best sweeteners of tea. (HenryFielding, British writer)

　　風流韻事與丑聞是品茶聊天時的最佳話題。(英國作家 菲爾丁 H)

　　Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (John Erskine, American educator)

　　音樂是唯一不能用及表達卑鄙的或諷刺的事物的語言。(美國教育家 厄斯金 J)

　　Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve. British dramatist)

　　音樂有著撫慰粗野的胸懷、軟化頑石或使千年老樹彎腰的魅力。(英國劇作家 康格里夫 W)

　　Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture. (Simonides, ancient Greek writer)

　　畫是無言之詩，詩是有聲之畫。(古希臘作家 西蒙尼特斯)