Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Mu Xin

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Mu Xin
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1927 - December 21, 2011

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

Mu Xin

The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

Mu Xin

If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

Mu Xin

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

Mu Xin

I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

Mu Xin

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

Mu Xin

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

Mu Xin

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Mu Xin

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

Mu Xin

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

Mu Xin

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

Mu Xin

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Mu Xin

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