I blame the perception of art being liberal on Picasso because he was a card carrying
我谴责毕加索所谓艺术自由的看法，因为他有着
communist. It's interesting the artist who painted the great anti-fascist picture saw
共产主义者的身份。有趣的是在这个艺术家所画的伟大的反法西斯画作中
absolutely nothing wrong with totalitarian communism. And certainly most artists tend
完全看不到任何共产主义极权的错误。当然，很多艺术家倾向于
to be a liberal. I don't think though that that means that Republicans or conservatives
做一个自由主义者。我不这么认为，尽管它意味着共和党或者保守派
can't appreciate art and that also that there aren't artists who can be conservative.
不能够欣赏艺术，同样也不会有艺术家成为保守派。

That might be the sort of tendency but I don't think it's exclusive. And I also think art,
可能会有这种趋势，但是我不认为它是唯一的。我同样认为艺术，
particularly the kind of art that's in David's Sling, is a real uniting force. I mean I don't
尤其是David's Sling的这种艺术，是真正表现团结力量的。我的意思是我不
care if you are Bernie Sanders or Ted Cruz, I think you both can come together to appreciate
在意你是否是Bernie Sanders 或者Ted Cruz,我认为你同样可以一起去欣赏
an achievement like Michelangelo's David. That shouldn't be a difficult or a divisive
像Michelangelo's David 的成就。那不应该是一件困难的或者分裂了的
thing, it should be a uniting thing. Whether we want to be or not we are engaged in a civilizational
事情，它应该是一件团结的事情。不管我们是否要加入这个文明的
struggle with forces that are extremely hostile to what we would consider to be the Western
战斗中带着非常敌对的力量，针对那些我们所考虑的西方
tradition, although now it is a global tradition with the inclusion of states like Japan and
传统，尽管现在传统全球化，例如日本和
Israel. This is something we should all come together to support and celebrate and so art
以色列。这是我们可以一起参与支持庆祝的，因此艺术
can be I think a wonderful vehicle for that kind of unity.
能够成为一种我所认为的很棒的用来团结的媒介。