Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!

Translator: Clair Han Reviewer: ChangHyun Lee

翻译人员: Tongyu Sun 校对人员: Emma Chiang

The theme of my talk today is,

我今天演讲的主题是：

"Be an artist, right now."

做个艺术家吧，现在就开始！

Most people, when this subject is brought up,

大多数对听到这个主题可能都会变得很紧张

get tense and resist it:

并且对其满是抗拒

"Art doesn't feed me, and right now I'm busy.

“艺术不适合我，我现在很忙啦”

I have to go to school, get a job,

“我得上学啊、找工作啊，”

send my kids to lessons ... "

“我要送孩子去上学啊”

You think, "I'm too busy. I don't have time for art."

你觉得，“你太忙了，你没有时间玩艺术”

There are hundreds of reasons why we can't be artists right now.

我们拒绝艺术的理由千种万种，

Don't they just pop into your head?

这些理由是不是总是会突然冒出来？

There are so many reasons why we can't be,

我们有千百种理由没法做个艺术家，

indeed, we're not sure why we should be.

但事实上，我们只是不清楚我们为什么应该做艺术家。

We don't know why we should be artists,

我们只是不知道我们为什么要做艺术家，

but we have many reasons why we can't be.

但我们却找各种理由说服自己做不了艺术家。

Why do people instantly resist the idea of associating themselves with art?

为什么人们会条件反射般的抵触艺术？

Perhaps you think art is for the greatly gifted

也许你会认为艺术只是那些天赋异禀的人才能玩得起的，

or for the thoroughly and professionally trained.

或者是那些透彻地受过专业艺术教育的人才能参与的。

And some of you may think you've strayed too far from art.

而有些人也许还觉得自己离艺术太远了。

Well you might have, but I don't think so.

也许你真的离艺术很远，但我却不这么认为。

This is the theme of my talk today.

而这便是我今天演讲的主题。

We are all born artists.

人人生来都是艺术家。

If you have kids, you know what I mean.

如果你有小孩,你就会明白。

Almost everything kids do is art.

几乎所有的小孩都会摆弄点艺术。

They draw with crayons on the wall.

他们用蜡笔在墙上画画。

They dance to Son Dam Bi's dance on TV,

他们对着电视里孙丹菲的舞蹈翩翩起舞，

but you can't even call it Son Dam Bi's dance -- it becomes the kids' own dance.

他们跳的舞都不像是孙丹菲的舞蹈， 而是具有他们自己风格的舞蹈。

So they dance a strange dance and inflict their singing on everyone.

孩子们跳一些奇怪的舞， 并用自己的歌声伴奏。

Perhaps their art is something only their parents can bear,

也许他们创造的艺术，只有他们的父母们才能欣赏

and because they practice such art all day long,

并且他们一天到晚都在进行这一类艺术创作，

people honestly get a little tired around kids.

所以人们其实跟这些孩子们在一起久了都会感到厌倦。

Kids will sometimes perform monodramas --

孩子们有时候会一个人演部戏，

playing house is indeed a monodrama or a play.

过家家实际上就是一种独角戏。

And some kids, when they get a bit older,

有些孩子长大一些后，

start to lie.

会开始撒谎。

Usually parents remember the very first time their kid lies.

父母们通常都会记得孩子第一次撒谎的情景。

They're shocked.

父母们会觉得很震惊。

"Now you're showing your true colors," Mom says. She thinks, "Why does he take after his dad?"

妈妈会说：“你开始显露你的真面目了”， 她会想：“为什么孩子会学父亲撒谎？”

She questions him, "What kind of a person are you going to be?"

妈妈会质问孩子：“你到底会成为一个什么样的人？”

But you shouldn't worry.

但其实你不用担心。

The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins.

孩子们开始撒谎的时候就是他们开始创造故事的时候。

They are talking about things they didn't see.

他们所说的东西是他们从没见过的。

It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment.

这很神奇。这是一个极好的时刻。

Parents should celebrate.

父母们应该感到高兴。

"Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!"

“太好了，我孩子...我孩子终于开始撒谎了！”

All right! It calls for celebration.

这是需要庆祝的

For example, a kid says, "Mom, guess what? I met an alien on my way home."

例如一个孩子说：“妈妈，你知道吗？ 我今天回家路上遇见一个外星人”

Then a typical mom responds, "Stop that nonsense."

一个一般的母亲可能会回答：“别瞎说。”

Now, an ideal parent is someone who responds like this:

而好的父母却会这样回答：

"Really? An alien, huh? What did it look like? Did it say anything?

“真的吗？ 碰见外星人了？” “他长什么样啊？他有没有说什么啊？”

Where did you meet it?" "Um, in front of the supermarket."

“你在哪儿遇见他的啊？” “在超市的门口”

When you have a conversation like this,

这样的一段对话后，

the kid has to come up with the next thing to say to be responsible for what he started.

孩子就不得不继续编一些负责任的内容， 来完成他已经开了头的故事。

Soon, a story develops.

很快，故事就产生了。

Of course this is an infantile story,

当然，这只是一个幼稚的故事，

but thinking up one sentence after the next

但想出一个又一个的句子，

is the same thing a professional writer like me does.

和像我这样的专业作家所做的事是一样的。

In essence, they are not different.

本质上而言，二者并没有什么区别。

Roland Barthes once said of Flaubert's novels,

罗兰·巴特曾经评价福楼拜的小说时说道：

"Flaubert did not write a novel.

”福楼拜写的不仅仅是小说“

He merely connected one sentence after another.

”他不仅仅是将一个句子连接在另一个句子后面”

The eros between sentences, that is the essence of Flaubert's novel."

“字里行间的爱才是福楼拜小说的精华所在。”

That's right -- a novel, basically, is writing one sentence,

这就对了——一部小说，基本上先写一个句子

then, without violating the scope of the first one,

然后再在第一个句子的基础上

writing the next sentence.

写下一个句子。

And you continue to make connections.

你会继续进行连接。

Take a look at this sentence:

来看一下这个句子：

"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug."

“一天早上，当格雷戈•萨姆莎从焦躁的梦境中醒来，他发现自己变成了一个可怕的害虫。”

Yes, it's the first sentence of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."

这就是弗朗兹•卡夫卡《变形记》中的第一个句子。

Writing such an unjustifiable sentence

写下这么一个不合常理的句子

and continuing in order to justify it,

然后继续下去并证明它，

Kafka's work became the masterpiece of contemporary literature.

使得卡夫卡的作品成为当代文学的大师作品。

Kafka did not show his work to his father.

卡夫卡没有把他的作品给他父亲看，

He was not on good terms with his father.

他跟他父亲关系不太好，

On his own, he wrote these sentences.

他靠自己写下了这些句子。

Had he shown his father, "My boy has finally lost it," he would've thought.

如果他给他父亲看，他父亲会想：“我的孩子脑子是不是有问题”。

And that's right. Art is about going a little nuts

这就对了，艺术就是这样有一点点着迷的、

and justifying the next sentence,

一直用下一个句子去证明的，

which is not much different from what a kid does.

正如小孩所做的没什么太大差别。

A kid who has just started to lie

一个刚开始说谎的小孩

is taking the first step as a storyteller.

正是迈开了编造故事的第一步。

Kids do art.

小孩是在搞艺术。

They don't get tired and they have fun doing it.

他们不觉得累，他们这么做很有乐趣。

I was in Jeju Island a few days ago.

前几天，我在济州岛。

When kids are on the beach, most of them love playing in the water.

大多数沙滩上的孩子都喜欢在水中嬉戏

But some of them spend a lot of time in the sand,

但有一些孩子花了很多时间在玩沙子，

making mountains and seas -- well, not seas,

做了山啊海啊——好吧，没有海，

but different things -- people and dogs, etc.

反正是不同的东西--人啊、狗啊什么的。

But parents tell them,

但是家长会说，

"It will all be washed away by the waves."

“这都会被海浪冲走的”

In other words, it's useless.

换句话说，这是毫无用处的，

There's no need.

完全没有需要。

But kids don't mind.

但孩子们不在乎，

They have fun in the moment

他们很快乐

and they keep playing in the sand.

继续玩他们的沙子。

Kids don't do it because someone told them to.

孩子们不这样做，是因为人们告诉他们（不要这么做）。

They aren't told by their boss

如果没有任何人告诉他们不该做什么

or anyone, they just do it.

他们就会去做。

When you were little, I bet you spent time enjoying the pleasure of primitive art.

我敢打赌你们小时候肯定有很多享受原始艺术的欢乐时光。

When I ask my students to write about their happiest moment,

我让我的学生写下他们的最快乐的一刻，

many write about an early artistic experience they had as a kid.

大多数学生写了他们孩提时代的早期艺术经历。

Learning to play piano for the first time and playing four hands with a friend,

比如最早学弹钢琴，与朋友一起四手联弹，

or performing a ridiculous skit with friends looking like idiots -- things like that.

或者与朋友们一起象傻子一样表演荒诞的滑稽戏--诸如此类

Or the moment you developed the first film you shot with an old camera.

或者是第一次用旧录像机搞一个电影，

They talk about these kinds of experiences.

他们谈到了这样一些经历。

You must have had such a moment.

你们也肯定会有这样的时光，

In that moment, art makes you happy

艺术使你变得快乐

because it's not work.

因为这不是工作，

Work doesn't make you happy, does it? Mostly it's tough.

工作没法使你快乐，不是吗？工作总是辛苦的。

The French writer Michel Tournier has a famous saying.

法国作家米歇尔•图尼埃尔有一句名言，

It's a bit mischievous, actually.

事实上，这句话有一点促狭的，

"Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired."

“工作是反人性的，因为它让人感到疲劳”

Right? Why would work tire us if it's in our nature?

对吗？如果工作是我们人性的一部分，为什么会让我们厌倦？

Playing doesn't tire us.

玩从来就不会让我们厌倦。

We can play all night long.

我们可以玩一个通宵，

If we work overnight, we should be paid for overtime.

但如果工作一个通宵，我们就要加班工资。

Why? Because it's tiring and we feel fatigue.

为什么？因为工作让我们感到厌倦和疲劳。

But kids, usually they do art for fun. It's playing.

但是孩子们，通常为了好玩而搞艺术，这是在玩。

They don't draw to sell the work to a client

他们不需要把作品卖给客户，

or play the piano to earn money for the family.

或为了赚钱养家而弹钢琴。

Of course, there were kids who had to.

当然，有些孩子需要那样做。

You know this gentleman, right?

大家都认识他，是吧？

He had to tour around Europe to support his family --

他为了养家不得不进行欧洲巡回演出

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart --

沃尔夫冈·阿马德乌斯·莫扎特

but that was centuries ago, so we can make him an exception.

但这是几个世纪以前的事，所以我们可以把他作为例外

Unfortunately, at some point our art -- such a joyful pastime -- ends.

不幸的是，在某些时候我们的艺术 如此愉悦的消遣 — 已经结束了。

Kids have to go to lessons, to school, do homework

孩子们不得不去学习、去学校、做作业

and of course they take piano or ballet lessons,

当然他们也会上钢琴课、芭蕾课，

but they aren't fun anymore.

但是他们不再因此而快乐。

You're told to do it and there's competition. How can it be fun?

你为了一个竞赛而去练习，会有乐趣吗？

If you're in elementary school and you still draw on the wall,

在小学，如果你还在墙上乱画，

you'll surely get in trouble with your mom.

你就肯定会遇到麻烦，

Besides,

除此之外，

if you continue to act like an artist as you get older,

如果当你长大，你还在从事艺术，

you'll increasingly feel pressure --

你会越来越感到压力——

people will question your actions and ask you to act properly.

人们会质疑你的行为并要求你做出适当的行为。

Here's my story: I was an eighth grader and I entered a drawing contest at school in Gyeongbokgung.

说说我的故事： 我在景福宫学校8年级的时候参加了一个绘画比赛，

I was trying my best, and my teacher came around

我尽了自己最大的努力，然后我的老师走过来

and asked me, "What are you doing?"

问我，“你在干什么？”

"I'm drawing diligently," I said.

我说：”我在勤奋地画画“

"Why are you using only black?"

”为什么你只用黑色？“

Indeed, I was eagerly coloring the sketchbook in black.

事实上，我在速写本上急切地涂着黑色。

And I explained,

我解释说，

"It's a dark night and a crow is perching on a branch."

“这是一个漆黑的夜晚，一只乌鸦栖息在一根树枝上。”

Then my teacher said,

然后我的老师说，

"Really? Well, Young-ha, you may not be good at drawing but you have a talent for storytelling."

”真的吗？好吧，英涵，你也许不太擅长画画，但你是一个讲故事的天才。“

Or so I wished.

但这只是我的想象，

"Now you'll get it, you rascal!" was the response. (Laughter)

我得到的回应是，“太不像话了，你这个小混蛋“

"You'll get it!" he said.

他说，”太不像话了“

You were supposed to draw the palace, the Gyeonghoeru, etc.,

你应该画宫殿，庆会楼，等等。

but I was coloring everything in black,

但我把所有的都涂成了黑色，

so he dragged me out of the group.

所以他把我赶了出去。

There were a lot of girls there as well,

当时那里还有许多女孩子在场，

so I was utterly mortified.

我感到特别囧

None of my explanations or excuses were heard,

完全没有听我的解释或是借口

and I really got it big time.

我真的是受到了奇耻大辱。

If he was an ideal teacher, he would have responded like I said before,

如果他是一个好老师，他就会象我刚才那么说，

"Young-ha may not have a talent for drawing,

”英涵也许不是一个画画的人才，

but he has a gift for making up stories," and he would have encouraged me.

但他具有编造故事的天赋，“而且他也会鼓励我。

But such a teacher is seldom found.

但是这样的老师很难找得到。

Later, I grew up and went to Europe's galleries --

后来长大后，我到了欧洲的画廊——

I was a university student -- and I thought this was really unfair.

我当时是一个大学生——我想这真的很不公平，

Look what I found. (Laughter)

看一下我找到了什么（大笑）

Works like this were hung in Basel while I was punished

象这样的作品挂在巴塞尔，而我却得到了惩罚，

and stood in front of the palace with my drawing in my mouth.

被罚站在宫殿前，嘴巴里塞着我的画。

Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper?

看看这个，这不像是一张墙纸？

Contemporary art, I later discovered, isn't explained by a lame story like mine.

我之后发现，当代艺术，并不需要象我那样的蹩脚故事，

No crows are brought up.

没有什么乌鸦，

Most of the works have no title, Untitled.

大多数作品没有标题，

Anyways, contemporary art in the 20th century

不管怎样，20世纪的当代艺术

is about doing something weird and filling the void with explanation and interpretation --

就是做些怪异的东西，用说明和解释填充空隙——

essentially the same as I did.

本质上跟我以前做的差不多。

Of course, my work was very amateur,

当然，我的作品是很业余的，

but let's turn to more famous examples.

但是让我们来看看更多著名的例子。

This is Picasso's.

这是毕加索，

He stuck handlebars into a bike seat and called it "Bull's Head." Sounds convincing, right?

他把自行车把手粘到坐垫上，称之为”牛头“ 听起来很有说服力，对吧？

Next, a urinal was placed on its side and called "Fountain".

下一个，一个小便器侧着放，称之为”泉“，

That was Duchamp.

这是杜尚。

So filling the gap between explanation and a weird act with stories --

所以用故事填充解释和怪异行为之间的沟壑——

that's indeed what contemporary art is all about.

这就是关于当代艺术的一切。

Picasso even made the statement,

毕加索甚至宣称，

"I draw not what I see but what I think."

”我不是画我所看到的，而是画我所想“

Yes, it means I didn't have to draw Gyeonghoeru.

是的，这就是说我并不需要画庆会楼。

I wish I knew what Picasso said back then. I could have argued better with my teacher.

我希望我那时就知道毕加索说的话，我就可以更好地跟老师争论。

Unfortunately, the little artists within us

不幸的是，在我们可以与艺术的压迫者反抗之前，

are choked to death before we get to fight against the oppressors of art.

我们的小艺术家们就被扼杀了，

They get locked in.

他们被禁锢了，

That's our tragedy.

这就是我们的悲剧。

So what happens when little artists get locked in, banished or even killed?

所以如果小艺术家们被禁锢、被放逐甚至被扼杀，会发生什么？

Our artistic desire doesn't go away.

我们的艺术欲望不会消失。

We want to express, to reveal ourselves,

我们想表达、展示自我，

but with the artist dead, the artistic desire reveals itself in dark form.

但是艺术家已经死亡，那么艺术的欲望只能以黑暗的形式展现，

In karaoke bars, there are always people who sing

在卡拉OK，经常有人假装吉他即兴演唱

"She's Gone" or "Hotel California,"

”她走了“或”加州旅馆“

miming the guitar riffs.

这种吉他即兴

Usually they sound awful. Awful indeed.

通常他们唱得很糟糕，真的很糟糕，

Some people turn into rockers like this.

有些人变成像这样的摇滚乐手，

Or some people dance in clubs.

或有人在会所跳舞，

People who would have enjoyed telling stories

那些以说故事为乐的人

end up trolling on the Internet all night long.

会在互联网上通宵达旦的高唱。

That's how a writing talent reveals itself on the dark side.

这就是写作天赋所显露的黑暗的一面。

Sometimes we see dads get more excited than their kids

有时候，我们看到爸爸们玩力高玩具或装配塑料机器人

playing with Legos or putting together plastic robots.

比自己的孩子更加来劲，

They go, "Don't touch it. Daddy will do it for you."

他们会说”别碰它，老爸帮你做“

The kid has already lost interest and is doing something else,

孩子们已经失去了兴趣，开始做其他的事情，

but the dad alone builds castles.

但是爸爸却在那儿自个儿摆弄城堡，

This shows the artistic impulses inside us are suppressed, not gone.

这显示了我们内心的艺术冲动被抑制了，还没有消失。

But they can often reveal themselves negatively, in the form of jealousy.

但他们往往以嫉妒的方式显示出负面影响。

You know the song "I would love to be on TV"? Why would we love it?

你知道有首歌叫“我想上电视” ？我们为什么会喜欢它？

TV is full of people who do what we wished to do,

电视里充满了那些在做我们想做

but never got to.

但从来不会做的事情的人，

They dance, they act -- and the more they do, they are praised.

他们跳舞、他们表演——他们做得越多，越得到赞赏，

So we start to envy them.

所以我们开始嫉妒他们，

We become dictators with a remote and start to criticize the people on TV.

我们变成了拿遥控器的独裁者，并开始批评电视上的人。

"He just can't act." "You call that singing? She can't hit the notes."

”他不会表演“、”你能说那叫唱歌？简直跟不上节拍“

We easily say these sorts of things.

我们很容易说这些事情，

We get jealous, not because we're evil,

我们嫉妒了，并不是因为我们是恶魔，

but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

而是因为我们内心有一个被积郁的小小艺术家，

That's what I think.

我就是这么认为的。

What should we do then?

那么我们该怎么做呢？

Yes, that's right.

嗯，对，

Right now, we need to start our own art.

就从现在开始，我们需要开始我们自己的艺术。

Right this minute, we can turn off TV,

就从这一刻开始，我们关掉电视，

log off the Internet,

拔掉网线，

get up and start to do something.

站起来，去做些什么事情。

Where I teach students in drama school,

我教书的戏剧学校，

there's a course called Dramatics.

有一门课叫戏剧表演，

In this course, all students must put on a play.

在这门课上，所有的学生必须提供一出戏，

However, acting majors are not supposed to act.

然而，表演专业的学生并不需要表演，

They can write the play, for example,

比如他们可以写剧本，

and the writers may work on stage art.

作家也许可以去搞舞台艺术，

Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

同样，舞台艺术专业的学生也许成为演员 用这种方式来提供一出戏。

Students at first wonder whether they can actually do it,

学生们起初疑惑他们是否能够真正做到，

but later they have so much fun. I rarely see anyone who is miserable doing a play.

但是后来他们体验到了更多的乐趣 我很少看到有人很痛苦地在搞这出戏。

In school, the military or even in a mental institution, once you make people do it, they enjoy it.

在学校、在军队或甚至是在精神病院，一旦让人们这么做，大家都会很享受这种乐趣。

I saw this happen in the army -- many people had fun doing plays.

我看到在军队所发生的 许多人都在这样的戏剧中体验到了乐趣。

I have another experience:

我还有另外一个经历：

In my writing class, I give students a special assignment.

在我的写作课上，我布置给学生一个很特殊的作业。

I have students like you in the class -- many who don't major in writing.

在我的班上有些学生就像你们一样 许多人并不是写作专业，

Some major in art or music and think they can't write.

而是一些艺术专业或音乐专业的学生 他们觉得自己不会写作

So I give them blank sheets of paper and a theme.

所以我给他们一些空白纸张和一个主题，

It can be a simple theme:

可以是一些很简单的主题：

Write about the most unfortunate experience in your childhood.

写一下你孩提时代最倒霉的一次经历，

There's one condition: You must write like crazy. Like crazy!

但是有一个条件：你必须拼命写、拼命写！

I walk around and encourage them,

我来回走并鼓励他们，

"Come on, come on!" They have to write like crazy for an hour or two.

”快点，快点！“他们不得不拼命地写1到2个小时，

They only get to think for the first five minutes.

他们只有前5分钟可以思考，

The reason I make them write like crazy is because

我让他们拼命写的原因是

when you write slowly and lots of thoughts cross your mind,

当你慢慢写的时候会有很多想法纠结在你的头脑，

the artistic devil creeps in.

艺术的恶魔就会蔓延，

This devil will tell you hundreds of reasons

这个恶魔会告诉你上百个

why you can't write:

你不能写的理由：

"People will laugh at you. This is not good writing!

”人们会嘲笑你，这个写得不好！“

What kind of sentence is this? Look at your handwriting!"

这是什么句子啊？看看你的字迹！”

It will say a lot of things.

它会说很多事情，

You have to run fast so the devil can't catch up.

你必须得跑得很快，那么这个恶魔就无法抓住你

The really good writing I've seen in my class

我在课堂上看到真正写得好的

was not from the assignments with a long deadline,

不是用很长时间完成的作业，

but from the 40- to 60-minute crazy writing students did

而是在40-60分钟内在我面前

in front of me with a pencil.

用铅笔疯狂拼命写的学生完成的，

The students go into a kind of trance.

学生们进入了一种恍惚的状态，

After 30 or 40 minutes, they write without knowing what they're writing.

30-40分钟后，他们已经不知道他们在写什么了。

And in this moment, the nagging devil disappears.

而在这个时刻，唠叨的恶魔消失了，

So I can say this:

所以我可以这么说：

It's not the hundreds of reasons why one can't be an artist,

不存在上百个你不能成为艺术家的理由，

but rather, the one reason one must be that makes us artists.

而是只有一个你必须成为艺术家的理由，

Why we cannot be something is not important.

我们不能成为什么并不重要，

Most artists became artists because of the one reason.

大多数艺术家成为艺术家都只有一个原因，

When we put the devil in our heart to sleep and start our own art,

如果我们让内心的恶魔睡去并开始我们自己的艺术，

enemies appear on the outside.

敌人就被赶了出去，

Mostly, they have the faces of our parents. (Laughter)

通常，他们有着我们父母的面孔（大笑），

Sometimes they look like our spouses,

有时候他们看起来象我们的配偶，

but they are not your parents or spouses.

但是他们并不是你的父母或配偶，

They are devils. Devils.

他们是恶魔，恶魔。

They came to Earth briefly transformed

他们来到地球，经过巧妙转化，

to stop you from being artistic, from becoming artists.

来阻止你的艺术天赋，阻止你成为一个艺术家，

And they have a magic question.

他们有一个魔法问题，

When we say, "I think I'll try acting. There's a drama school in the community center," or

当我们说，“在社区中心有一个戏剧学校，我想尝试表演，”或

"I'd like to learn Italian songs," they ask, "Oh, yeah? A play? What for?"

“我想学习意大利歌曲。”他们就会问“噢，是吗？为了什么？”

The magic question is, "What for?"

这个魔法问题就是“为了什么？”

But art is not for anything.

但是艺术并不是为了什么，

Art is the ultimate goal.

艺术是一个终极目标，

It saves our souls and makes us live happily.

它拯救我们的灵魂，让我们快乐地生活，

It helps us express ourselves and be happy without the help of alcohol or drugs.

它帮助我们表达自我，让我们快乐，远离酒精和毒品，

So in response to such a pragmatic question,

所以对这样一个务实的问题，

we need to be bold.

我们需要勇敢地面对，

"Well, just for the fun of it. Sorry for having fun without you,"

“好吧，就是为了找乐子。对不起，没带你一起找乐子”

is what you should say. "I'll just go ahead and do it anyway."

或者你应该说，“不管怎样，我就这么地了”

The ideal future I imagine is where we all have multiple identities,

我想象理想的未来是，我们都有多重身份，

at least one of which is an artist.

其中至少有一个是艺术家，

Once I was in New York and got in a cab. I took the backseat,

有一次我到了纽约，上了一辆出租车，坐在后座，

and in front of me I saw something related to a play.

我看到我前面有些东西与戏剧有关，

So I asked the driver, "What is this?"

所以我就问司机，“这是什么？”

He said it was his profile. "Then what are you?" I asked. "An actor," he said.

他说这是他的简介，“那么你是干什么的？”我问。他说：“演员”

He was a cabby and an actor. I asked, "What roles do you usually play?"

他是一个出租车司机和一个演员 我问他“你通常扮演什么角色？”

He proudly said he played King Lear.

他自豪地说他扮演李尔王。

King Lear.

李尔王！

"Who is it that can tell me who I am?" -- a great line from King Lear.

“谁能告诉我我是谁？”——李尔王中一句经典台词，

That's the world I dream of.

这就是我梦想的世界，

Someone is a golfer by day and writer by night.

有人白天是高尔夫球员晚上是作家，

Or a cabby and an actor, a banker and a painter,

或者出租车司机和演员，银行家和画家，

secretly or publicly performing their own arts.

秘密地或公开地表演他们自己的艺术。

In 1990, Martha Graham, the legend of modern dance, came to Korea.

玛莎•格拉汉姆，一个现代舞蹈的传奇人物，1990年来到韩国，

The great artist, then in her 90s, arrived at Gimpo Airport

伟大的艺术家，以她90多岁的高龄到达了金浦机场，

and a reporter asked her a typical question:

一个记者问了她一个很典型的问题：

"What do you have to do to become a great dancer?

“你怎么做才成为一个伟大的舞蹈家？

Any advice for aspiring Korean dancers?"

对有志的韩国舞蹈家有什么忠告吗？

Now, she was the master. This photo was taken in 1948 and she was already a celebrated artist.

现在她是大师级的人物，这张照片拍摄于1948年，那时她已经是知名艺术家了，

In 1990, she was asked this question.

但在1990年她被问到这样的问题，

And here's what she answered:

她是这么回答的：

"Just do it."

"Just do it." “只管去做吧”

Wow. I was touched.

喔，我被感动到了，

Only those three words and she left the airport. That's it.

只留下这三个字她就离开了机场，就这么多，

So what should we do now?

那么现在我们该干什么呢？

Let's be artists, right now. Right away. How?

让我们做个艺术家，此时、此地，怎么样？

Just do it!

Just do it! “只管去做吧！”

Thank you.

谢谢！

(Applause)

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