Gao Xingjian Quotes

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what you can hold in your memory and what you lose. That's an interesting thing to try to paint.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.