art is long, and time is fleeting. (longfellow, american poet)

　　藝術是永恒的，時間則是瞬息即逝的。(美國詩人 朗費羅)

　　art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it ! (robert motherwell, american painter)

　　藝術遠沒有生活重要，但是沒有藝術生活是多么乏味呀！(美國畫家 馬赦韋爾 r)

　　art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. (len tolstoy, russian writer)

　　藝術不是手藝，它是藝術家的體驗到的感情的傳遞。(俄國作家托爾斯泰。l)

　　art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. (susanne langer, american philosopher)

　　藝術是感情的模制品，猶如語言是思想的模制品。(美國哲學家 蘭格 s)

　　art is the object of feeling, and the subject of nature. (s.k.langer, american philosopher and educator)

　　藝術是情感的客觀表現。也是本性的主觀反映。(美國哲學家、教育家 蘭格 s k)

　　art is the right hand of nature. the latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. (friedrich schiller, german poet)

　　藝術是自然的右手。自然只讓我們存在，而藝術創造我們的人類。(德國詩人 席勒 f)

　　art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travel. (theocore dreser, american novelist

　　great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight (p.b.shelley, british poet)

　　偉大的詩篇即是永遠噴出智慧和歡欣之水的噴泉。(英國詩人 雪萊 p b)

　　a novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (stendhcl,french writer)

　　一部小說猶如一面在大街上走的鏡子。(法國作家 司湯達)

　　a picture is a poem without words. (horace, ancient roman poet)

　　一幅畫是一首沒有文字的詩歌。(古羅馬詩人 賀拉斯)

　　a poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (e.de goncourt, french writer)

　　詩人是這樣的人，他架起通向星星的梯子——一邊爬梯子一邊拉提琴。(法國作家 龔古爾 e)

　　a poet is born, not made. (l.a.florus, ancient roman poet)

　　詩人靠天分，不是靠培養。(古羅馬詩人 弗洛魯 l a)