在很多人眼里，学艺术的人是一个特殊的群体，7月这些艺术生开始离校，是找份工作还是成为职业艺术家？相比较其他专业，艺术毕业生们似乎面临的压力更大一些。本期视野分享给大家8位艺术家的一些自我经历和建议。有时候人生会乱七八糟，这都很正常。
In the eyes of many people, art students are a special crowd. In July, students will be graduating from art schools and stepping into the society. Will they find a job, or will they be a professional artist? Compared to others, majoring in art seems to put more pressure on college graduates. Today, we share with you some advice coming from 8 great artists.
塞尔维亚行为艺术家：玛莉娜·阿布拉莫维奇
Serbian Performance Artist : Marina Abramović
南非艺术家：威廉·肯特里奇
South African Artist : William Kentridge
美国摇滚歌手及诗人：帕蒂·史密斯
American Singer-
美国音乐艺术家：大卫·拜恩
American Musician : David Byrne
德国导演：维姆·文德斯
German Director : Wim Wenders
丹麦冰岛艺术家：奥拉维尔·埃利亚松
Danish-Icelandic Artist : Olafur Eliasson
英国艺术家：查普曼兄弟
British Artists : Jake and Dinos Chapman
八位艺术家给年轻人的建议
塞尔维亚行为艺术家玛莉娜·阿布拉莫维奇认为做好失败的准备是很重要的。南非艺术家威廉·肯特里奇认为，好的建议与提出和接受建议的人的具体情况相关。摇滚歌手及诗人帕蒂·史密斯分享了威廉·柏洛兹曾经为她提出的建议：创作好的作品，以此树立并保护你的名声，最终这个名声会成为它自己特有的货币。美国歌手大卫·拜恩强调了重视自己艺术满足感的重要性，德国导演维姆·文德斯强调，没有人可以做得比你自己更好。丹麦冰岛艺术家奥拉维尔·埃利亚松推荐艺术家对自己的环境敏感，而英国艺术家查普曼兄弟二人则言辞简洁到位。
8 Artists' Advice to the Young
Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovich feels that it is essential to be ready to fail. South African artist William Kentridge believes that good advice has more to do with the interaction between the person giving it and the person receiving it. Rock singer and poet Patti Smith shares the advice that writer William S. Burroughs once gave her: to build and protect your name by producing good work, and eventually the name will become its own currency. American singer David Byrne emphasizes the importance of not undervaluing your own artistic satisfaction. German film director Wim Wenders stresses that you have to do what no one else can dobetter than you. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson recommends that you are sensitive to your surroundings - and British artists Dinos and Jake Chapman cut to the bone.
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玛莉娜·阿布拉莫维奇：
Marina Abramović:
在我教书的时候，这是我会问的一个问题：“你怎么知道你是个艺术家”，这是最主要的问题。知道你是不是艺术家就像呼吸，你不会质疑呼吸，你必须呼吸，要不你就会死。所以你呼吸，所以如果你早上起来，有一些想法你就必须去创作，就像一种执迷，你必须要创造，并且你有创造的欲望，那么你一定是一个艺术家。
So when I was teaching, this was one of the tests I would ask: "How do you know you're an artist？" That's the main question. And to know whether you're an artist or not is like breathing. You don't question breathing. You have to breathe, otherwise you just die. So you breathe. So if you wake up in the morning and you have some ideas, and you have to make them and it's become a kind of almost an obsession, and you have to create, and you have this urge to create, you're definitely an artist.
威廉·肯特里奇：
William Kentridge:
我觉得“建议”必须要取决于听的人和说的人的具体状况，而不是很泛泛的：“努力工作”、“做出最好”、“做你自己喜欢的，别人就会为此尊重你”、“不管你以什么主题创作，最后你创作的都是一幅自画像，它会揭示你到底是谁。如果它傲慢，那它是关于你的；如果它做作，那它是关于你的。别以为你可以通过选择不同的主题来逃避你自己”。很多类似这样的东西我是不会说的。除非有人需要那些没听过的话语。
I think it has to do with the specific interactions of the person giving the advice and the person receiving it rather than broader spectrums. Work hard. Do your best. Do what you like and people will respect you for it. It doesn't matter what subject you take on, in the end whatever you do is going to be a self portrait, it will reveal who you are. If it's arrogant, it's about you. It's pretentious, it's about you. Don't think you can escape yourself by your choice of subject matter. Many things like that I'm not going to say, unless someone is needing those words that don't get heard.
奥拉维尔·埃利亚松：
Olafur Eliasson:
我认为最好的“建议”是：与艺术共事是在与一个很凶悍，很强大，很野蛮的东西共事。虽然世界似乎在说,艺术是脆弱的，应当被边缘化，它不重要，它是达不到目标的，它不属于传统意义上现实的中心。艺术家应当有一种自信，就是在一张纸上画画可以改变世界的。从定义上来讲，创作艺术就是创作世界。所以作一个艺术家是一件不可思议的叛逆的事情。
Well I think the best advice is, I think working with art, is working with something that is very fierce, very strong, very robust. And even though the whole world seems to say that, this is fragile, should be marginalized, it's not important, it's counterproductive, it, you know, doesn't belong to the center of what reality is defined as, artists should have confidence in the fact that, well, making a drawing on a piece of paper is changing the world. By definition, making art is making the world. So it is an unbelievably revolting thing to be an artist.
帕蒂·史密斯：
Patti Smith:
我很年轻的时候，威廉·柏洛兹给予的我建议是“树立一个好的名声”。保持一个纯洁的名声，不要妥协。别担心是否能赚大钱或者出名，专心创作，做正确的决定，并守护你的作品。如果你树立良好的名声，这个名声将成为自身特有的货币。
When I was very young William Burroughs told me, "Build a good name." Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises, don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and make the right choices, and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, you know, that name will be its own currency.
维姆·文德斯：
Wim Wenders:
画家，摄影师，制片人，影像艺术家，不管你做什么，没人能比你做得更好。不要做那些你内心深处知道别人能做得更好的事情，只做只有你能做的事情。
Painter, photographer, filmmaker, video artist, whatever you do, nobody else can do that better than you. Don't do anything that you know deep in your heart somebody else can do better, but do nobody else can do except for you.
大卫·拜恩：
David Byrne:
虽然他们之中很多有雄心成为下一个JZ或者下一个谁，那种艺术家是极少的。很多时候，那样有名的艺术家，他们没有很大的弹性。在成功的过程中，他们会失去很多创造的自由。他们会重复制作差不多一样的东西，一遍又一遍。所以如果这个音乐家或者艺术家珍视他的自由，和他的创造性，他们就要意识到他们可能不能赚到好几百万美元。他们可能会少赚一些钱，但是他们会有更多艺术上的满足感。
Although some of them may have the ambition to be the next JZ or the next whatever, whatever it is, the number of those artists are very very small. And often the artists who are very successful that way, they don't have much flexibility. In achieving success, they kind of lose a lot of their creative freedom. They have to keep making the same thing, more or less, over and over and over again. And if the musician or artist values their freedom and their ability to be creative, then they have to realize that maybe they won't be making hundreds of millions of dollars. They might be making less money, but they might have more artistic satisfaction.
查普曼兄弟：
Dinos and Jake Chapman:
穿暖和点，吃好点。不要抽烟。给你妈妈打电话。
Wrap up warm, eat properly, sensibly. Don't smoke. Phone your mom.