What did Gao Xingjian mean by: Literature is subservient to nothing but truth. - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China Copy
+ Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gao Xingjian, Confusing, Love, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
+ They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gao Xingjian, Dream, Instant, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
+ Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural. Feraz Zeid, June 11, 2023December 12, 2023, Gao Xingjian, Natural, Struggle, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
+ Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gao Xingjian, Refuse, Truth, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
+ You’re safe only when you can’t see anybody. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Gao Xingjian, Safe, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
+ Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas. Feraz Zeid, June 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Gao Xingjian, Aspire, Ideas, Produce, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
+ Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gao Xingjian, Burden, Freedom, Heart, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
+ When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gao Xingjian, Human, Voice, 0 - Gao Xingjian Playwright, novelist, and painter · China
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
