I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
Translation is at best an echo.
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain. )
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
The original language of Christianity is translation.
Translation is the art of failure.
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Every act of communication is an act of translation.
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
In art as in life, some things need no translation.
