The point is that we both want to be in a place of revelation, where something that neither of us expected to happen will happen.

而艺术创作的意义是，我们都希望得到,启示，希望看到意想不到,的事情发生。

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Some of modern art, it confuses me and I'm kind of like, you know, "What's the point?"

有些现代艺术让我很迷惑，我就想说“它的意义在哪儿？”

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and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

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There's something to it, because things happened in this period that are revolutionary in the arts, in the thinking of people, philosophy is going to be invented in Miletus probably in this sixth century B.C.

它们确有相似之处,因为这个时期,在艺术上以及思想上,所发生的事件是有革命意义的,大约公元前六世纪,哲学在米利都诞生

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Right. You really have to have a wise passiveness that moment to really think that every piece of art have that kind of duty behind it.

的确，一个人必须要有这种聪悟的被动,才能在那一瞬间理解到每一个艺术作品,背后都有这个的意义。

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