Just what is the artist trying to say in her work?

这位艺术家究竟要在作品中表现什么呢？

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The artists say that the Internet gives people access to their music. If a person enjoys an artist, for example, that person is more likely to buy a CD and attend concerts by the artist.

甚至一些音乐家也承认唱协起诉那些忠实的乐迷未免鼠目寸光，他们说互联网为人们提供了获得他们音乐的途径，如果一个人欣赏某位艺人，就很可能去买一张CD并去听这位艺人的音乐会。

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Not that I have something to say, I have nothing to say, the whole reason to be an artist in fact is to uncover, in the process of working, some deeper truth.

并非我有什么要说，我无话可说，事实上，做艺术家的全部动因是在工作的进程中去揭露一些深刻的真相。

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Some experts say Raphael painted the image of the artist Michelangelo into this work.

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I hope you will keep on saying it, but I hope you will say it as an artist, as in Native Son. So Faulkner's objection is on the other side.

希望你会继续讲下去，但要以艺术家的身份讲下去，就像在《土生子》里面那样”

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Experts say the greatest artist ever to use this method was Rembrandt.

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Pinault had been following Stingel's work for more than a decade, ever since Geuna, then director of Sotheby's Europe, called Pinault to say the artist was broke and needed money to produce a giant installation for a mid-career retrospective.

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The living sculpture is called Don't Say I Didn't Tell You, by the noted Belgian artist Marcel Broodthers.

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At 33, she is a fully formed artist with impressively smart things to say about the tone and texture of contemporary American life.

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