Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there’ll be something for old age and a little… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
