1. true art is the product of the artist’s authentic(真实的) passion, a manifestation of the artist’s unique creative impulse, and a creation of the artist’s spirit. If art were shaped by the concern for integrating feedback from all criticism(批评，评论), it would become a viable craft, but at the same time would cease(停止)to be art.

2. the artist, through works of art, provides an invaluable(非常宝贵的) and unique mirror of the culture of the time during which the work produced a mirror for the artist’s contemporaries(同时代的人) and for future generations to gaze into(?) for insight and appreciation of history

3. This momentous(重要的) epitaph(墓志铭) came as an encouraging torch to mankind who had wandered in the valley of ignorance. It came as an exciting aurora(曙光) leading to the “Age of Reason”.

His expenditure was not in proportion to his income.

翻译: 他的开销和他的收入不成正比。

ignores the liberal arts(人文科学，文科) which teaches the basic life skills such as critical thinking, comprehensive analysis(全局分析) and selective absorption(选择性吸收)

注：The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music

四门高级学科中世纪七个文科中较高的门类，由几何、天文、算术以及音乐组成