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《艺术 | 成才的动力是？》
最近有篇软文挺火，名为“泡妞，男人成才的第一动力”，这是某人给自己孩子的家训。家长有心，可是忽视了一点，在我看来或许有些误导，容易让孩子认为泡妞才是人生至高无上的成就，这样一来往往让男性不尊重女性，把感情当儿戏，少了那份职责。爱，是要负责任的，永远是一份真诚，一份耐心，何来这么随便？女性，是要受尊重的，永远是一份善待，一份呵护，何来用“泡”一词？
Recently, there’s an article go viral, saying that As for Man, the Primary Impetus for Being Talented Come From Picking Up Hot Chicks, which’s a family motto written by someone to parent her kid. The mother is in a good deed, however, she seems to miss one thing, I think. The parental instruction may lead to a misunderstanding for the kids, which could probably let children end up chasing the skirt to unlock the supreme achievements in their lives. And that could allow a man to disrespect woman, to trifle with his relationships, to be less responsive. Love, a word you have to account for, is always patient and kind. How could someone be a mess with such casual? The woman, a word you have to take your hat off to, is always to be treated with respect and care. How could someone uses this phrase “Pick Up Hot Chicks”?
成才，没有第一动力，也没有第二动力，可以来自多方面，甚至后天环境因素的转变，如社会环境。成才往往更多的是去做自己想做的，并乐此不彼。不必考虑目的是什么，而是在于享受成才的过程，去追逐梦想，去做值得自己为之付出的项目，随着时间的沉淀，那时，在不经意间，你已成才。
Meanwhile, there’s no first impetus or second one to be a talented person. Being talented could be gained in many ways, even be acquired from environmental factors, like social-cultural. To nurture the talent, we usually do more of what makes us happy. We don’t need an intention, only have to enjoy the process of pursuing our dreams, to do everything that we think is worth fighting for. As the time comes right, you will be a talented person before you know it.
为此，我始终坚守自己的信条：做我想做的，并乐此不彼！
And that’s why I’m always following my motto: do more of what makes me happy…
接下来，小编我给大家摆事实，举例子吧：
Right now, I’ll offer you a true story on how to be a talented person.
尼日利亚有这么一位年轻的艺术家，他的铅笔画常常让观赏者们抓耳挠腮，无从分辨，到底是绘画作品？还是黑白摄影作品？他就是Arinze Stanley，一位超写实主义画家。
There’s a young Nigerian artist whose works often leave people scratching their heads and asking themselves if they’re looking at a pencil drawing or a black and white photograph. His name is Arinze Stanley, a hyper-realism professional.
幼年时期，Arinze就对艺术产生了浓厚的兴趣，特别是铅笔画。而他家人则拥有一家纸业公司，对于他来说，便能常常与纸张为伴，随手拿起一张纸，就可涂涂画画来打发时间。2012年，他着手尝试超写实主义画法，一年后的努力使他成为了该艺术领域的行家里手。他从未在专业艺术学校深造，而是通过自己多年的造诣，逐步领悟其学习技巧。看着他那些了不起的佳作，可以说他在艺术上极具有天赋，能在短时间内自学成师。
Arinze’s interest in art, and drawing in particular, was sparked at a young age, primarily by the fact that he was always surrounded by paper. His family ran a paper company, so he would often kill time by grabbing a piece of paper and trying his hand at drawing. But he only started exploring hyper-realism in 2012 and became a professional artist a year later. He has never taken any professional art classes and claims that the level of detail he is able to produce is solely the result of years of practice. Looking at his fantastic artworks, it’s safe to say that he has come a long way in very little time.
“‘磨练不断，耐心不无，坚持不懈’——那就是我一直以来所秉承的口号，”，人们采访他的时候，他是这么解释的：“多少年来到至今，这一标语始终指引着我。长久的练习让我的绘画技艺突飞猛进，倘若没有持之以恒，没有极大耐心，显然我也不会成功。因为创作一幅画往往需要200多个小时，而我只有晚上才有时间，白天工作实在是太忙了。”
“I’ve got a slogan I work with and that’s ‘Practice, Patience, and Persistence’,” Arinze Stanley said in an interview. “They have actually guided me throughout the years and still guiding me till now. Constant practice, I think, made me better at what I do but It would not have been possible without persistence and patience, as I take over 200 hours to complete a drawing and I only have time to work during the night due to my busy schedule at work during the day.”
当然，光投入大量精力在绘画上也是不够的。南非新闻报刊网站为其做了补充：“譬如，每逢他进行肖像画创作之时，他先深入研究被绘画者的发型，随后依据其发型决定绘画时所需要的头发密度和发丝大小。”这样才能让画作更好的呈现于纸上。
However, it’s not just drawing that he puts a great deal of time into. According to AllAfrica, “when he’s drawing hair in a portrait, he studies the kind of hair he’s using as reference, the volume of hair, the size of the strands of hair depending on the kind of hair,” in order to come up with the best way to replicate it on paper.
创作灵感，Arinze则取自于他周围的一切，然后用相机记录作为素材。不过，取材最多的则是人物肖像。他坦言道：有时候，发现自己正不知不觉地凝视着某人的脸。身为肖像画家的他，久而久之形成了自己独特的审美，且非常欣赏人类的面部结构和细节。
Arinze says that he takes inspiration for his artworks from everything around him, and takes reference photos himself, but focuses primarily on portraits. He confesses that he often ends up staring at people’s faces unconsciously, and adds that being a portrait artist has made him appreciate the varieties of human facial structures and details.
成才的动力是什么？我也不必再多说，各位已有所感悟了吧。不过，成才与否，并不重要，重要的是你有没有一颗善心、爱心、诚心。德，才是人生最基本，也是最崇高的成就。男性要成为一名绅士，学会尊重女性，不是因为你帅气，或有才，还是有钱，亦或有权就能真正意义上赢得女神的芳心。
What’s the impetus for being talented? Everyone already had the answer I guess. But whether you are a talented person or not is not really matters. To be a person with kindness, love, and sincerity that matters. Morality is our lives’ primary achievement need to be unlocked. Learn to be a gentleman. We men, have to treat women with value and esteem. Thus, handsome, talented, rich or power will not melt ladies’ hearts in fact.
再说，你不必刻意去成才来芳心暗许，合适的美眉会自然而然让你成为一名有才之人……
And you don’t need to be talented to get a girl, the right girl will bring out the talent in you…
注：艺术资讯取自OddityCentral，并已授权，感谢该国外媒体的支持，感谢Spooky。铅笔画佳作则截自Arinze的Instagram个人主页。其它插图是小编我，自己曾经绘画的作品以应景。
Note: The art news is from OddityCentral, and has been authorized by Spooky. I really appreciate his support. While pencil drawings are from Arinze’s Instagram profile. Other drawings were painted by me for a long time ago to fit the moment.
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For more of Arinze’s stunning artworks, plz go for his Instagram profile below:
https://www.instagram.com/harinzeyart/
撰写/编译：BubbleSwan
Writings/ Edited & Translated by BubbleSwan
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