Gao Xingjian Quotes

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

As a writer, you are free.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

I am the freest author in the world.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

We feel a brand should be free.

All talent needs is credibility and the freedom to create. That is all. That's what will make the talent happy, that's what makes me happy to this day.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.