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对于那些不可思议的伟大艺术作品，当代社会常将之归功于创作者本身，人们从而对艺术天才抱有超乎寻常的期望，伊丽莎白.吉尔伯特对这一点进行了探索和思考，提出了对于创造天才的独到观点：与其认为某个个人是“天才”，不如说他/她在创作中获得了“天才”的帮助。这一演讲生动有趣、充满个人色彩、令人感动而充满启发。
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- And that search has led me to ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
- 这一寻找最后把我带到了古希腊和古罗马。
- So stay with me, because it does circle around and back.
- 所以请耐心听我讲，因为最后会绕回到我们的问题。
- But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome -- people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?
- 在古希腊和古罗马，人们并不认为创造力来自于人类本身。
- People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
- 人们相信，创造力是一种神圣的守护精灵，从遥远而不可知的地方来到艺术家身边，带着某种遥远而不可知的目的。
- The Greeks famously called these divine attendant spirits of creativity "daemons."
- 希腊人普遍地称这种伴随着创造力的守护精灵为“守护神”。
- Socrates, famously, believed that he had a daemon who spoke wisdom to him from afar.
- 当时人们普遍地认为苏格拉底就有这样一个守护神，从远处赋予他智慧。
- The Romans had the same idea, but they called that sort of disembodied creative spirit a genius.
- 古罗马人有着相似的观点，他们把这种无形的创造精灵称为“天才”。
- Which is great, because the Romans did not actually think that a genius was a particularly clever individual.
- 这种观点很妙，因为罗马人并没有认为“天才”是某个特别聪慧的个人。
- They believed that a genius was this, sort of magical divine entity, who was believed to literally live in the walls of an artist's studio,
- 他们认为“天才”是某种奇妙的神圣存在，他们甚至认为“天才”居住在艺术家工作室的墙壁中，
- kind of like Dobby the house elf, and who would come out and sort of invisibly assist the artist with their work and would shape the outcome of that work.
- 就像小精灵多比一样，它们会悄悄地钻出来，无形地帮助艺术家创作，并影响作品成败。
- So brilliant -- there it is, right there, that distance that I'm talking about --
- 这个观点简直绝了，这就是我在找寻的那个安全距离，
- that psychological construct to protect you from the results of your work.
- 这就是让人免受作品成败影响的心理保护机制。
- And everyone knew that this is how it functioned, right?
- 我们都可以理解它的运作模式，不是吗？
- So the ancient artist was protected from certain things, like, for example, too much narcissism, right?
- 古代艺术家由这个观点而得到保护，避免了过度自恋。
- If your work was brilliant, you couldn't take all the credit for it, everybody knew that you had this disembodied genius who had helped you.
- 如果你的作品很伟大，那可不能完全归功于你，因为大家都知道你是在一个无形的“天才”帮助下完成作品的。
- If your work bombed, not entirely your fault, you know? Everyone knew your genius was kind of lame.
- 如果你的作品很烂，同样也不全是你的错，人人都知道那是因为你的“天才”很差劲。
- And this is how people thought about creativity in the West for a really long time.
- 这就是西方人在过去很长一段时间里看待创作力的方式。
- And then the Renaissance came and everything changed, and we had this big idea, and the big idea was,
- 接着文艺复兴来临，一切都变了，人们产生了一个伟大的想法：
- let's put the individual human being at the center of the universe above all gods and mysteries,
- “让我们把人类置于宇宙中心，超越众神和神秘未知”，
- and there's no more room for mystical creatures who take dictation from the divine.
- 于是再也没有空间留给传递神圣意志的小精灵。
- And it's the beginning of rational humanism, and people started to believe that creativity came completely from the self of the individual.
- 这就是理性人文主义的开端，人们开始相信创造力完全来源于人类个体本身。
- And for the first time in history, you start to hear people referring to this or that artist as being a genius, rather than having a genius.
- 有史以来，人们第一次将某个艺术家称为“天才”，而非拥有一个“天才”。
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