Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjianis a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.” He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 January 1940
CountryChina
Gao Xingjian quotes about
safe
You're safe only when you can't see anybody.
views literature bitterness
In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.
writing profound want
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
want sand
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
fighting men good-man
A good man never fights with a woman.
voice want humans
When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.
eye snow green
In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.
struggle life-is natural
Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.
essentials
What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.
hate love-and-hate together
Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.
reading book differences
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 not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.
distance symbolism white
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.
ideas produce aspiration
Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.
personal-experiences
Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.