The American artist Cy Twombly is one of only three modern artists who have been asked to make a permanent piece of art for the Louvre.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Because certainly there is a theory that art's main function is to provide succor and solace in this "vail of tears". -Right.

因为确实有一种理论认为艺术的主要,功能是提供帮助与安慰,因为世界纷繁而痛苦，-对的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What I want to do is to provide a state of the art introduction to the most important topic that there is: us.

我所要做的,就是向大家介绍在人文领域里,对最重要主题,也就是对我们人类的研究现状

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I think his legacy is just to set a higher standard and remind the art market and museum world that it's accountable."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is a hands-on piece of art. The public is encouraged to touch it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Is art important enough to you that you'd be prepared to watch, look at a masterpiece, if you knew that while you were enjoying it you could die, ? but that wouldn't happen otherwise?

艺术有没有重要到,让你准备好去看，去欣赏一件杰作，如果你知道在欣赏它的时候可能会死，但如果不去欣赏就不会死？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Nattaya Patoomtip is a Yellow Shirt and an art teacher who travels from Udon Thani to teach in the countryside, where support for the Red Shirts is nearly universal, she says she keeps discussions civil, but tries to educate village Red Shirts, who she says are ignorant.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25