Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

So is this something you do in your own artistic practice with when you are sitting down, writing a poem?

您在静下心来，写诗，进行艺术,创造时，也是实践这种理念么？

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In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

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Septime Webre is the artistic director of the Washington Ballet in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2010.12.22

Just wondering could you say a little bit more about that and how this idea of humility before something outside of yourself lends to both the artistic endeavor and the spiritual endeavor, in your own life and in perhaps the lives of some of our viewers.

您能否谈一下这一点,讲一下这种面对超我之物,的谦卑如何体现在艺术创造,和精神生活中的，如何体现在您的生活,以及我们一些观众朋友生活中的？

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You can go buy a score of the Beatles, for example--although they didn't design this initially with music, but after the fact,people sort of listen to it and make written-- put in written form what had originally been just an aurally conceived artistic statement.

你完全可以去，比如说买一些披头士的乐谱，但是他们当初写歌的时候并没有想用乐谱的形式传播，事实是人们听了他们的歌，再把它们写下来-,人们只是把一项为听觉设计的艺术品用笔记录下来。

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Second, a sense of crisis, a radical break in culture, an overturning of conventional artistic forms that goes with a sense that civilization itself is being overturned.

第二，危机感，文化上根本性突破，与文明本身被颠覆同时进行的,颠覆传统艺术模式的运动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Of course, as you have guessed, the good reader is the one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary and some artistic sense, which sense I propose to develop in myself and others whenever I have the chance.

当然，就像你们猜到的那样，好读者拥有想像力、好记性、,一本字典和几分艺术感，我建议一有机会,就进行自我及他人的艺术感培养。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选