"Only a lunatic would think that art is…" — Gao Xingjian
"Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature."
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21 Quotes by Gao Xingjian
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Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
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For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned.…
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Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
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Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
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I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
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Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.
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Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the…
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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