曾经有位批评家告诉我,艺术家不能读太多书,不然就不想搞艺术了。我听完后马上产生了两种理解:一是世界上好书太多,诱惑太大,随便一套金庸全集就足以蚕食掉艺术家宝贵的创作时间;二是艺术家通过大量阅读提升了思维能力和读写能力,那么当他想表达对这个世界的看法的时候,只需张口演讲、提笔写作就是,何必还选择画画、装置等耗财又费力的落后方式呢?这么一分析好像还挺有道理,仔细一想却都经不起推敲。对于第一种情况,在倡导全民阅读的今天,假如人人都 There was once a critic who told me that artists can not read too many books or they would not want to engage in art. I heard immediately after two kinds of understanding: First, too many good books in the world, the temptation is too large, just a complete set of Jin Yong is enough to erode the artist’s valuable creative time; Second, the artist through a large number of reading to improve thinking skills and Literacy, then when he wants to express his views on the world, just an open speech, pen writing is why, why choose painting, installation and other means of consumption and laborious backward way? Such an analysis seems to be pretty It makes sense, but think carefully but can not withstand scrutiny. For the first case, if everyone is advocated for reading today