The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
艺术家如同造物之神,留在作品之内、之后、之外或之上,隐而不见,仿佛被提炼得不复存在,漠然地修剪着自己的指甲。
— James Joyce · A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · Chapter V —