“The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.” NeedsHumansPersonsLanguageExistenceListeningHuman NeedsTransmissionAffirming Author:Gao Xingjian
“The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.” WayLanguageDifficultCome UpThings To DoEnterpriseNew WaysClicheDescribingDifficult Things Author:Gao Xingjian
“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.” WorldDoeArtLanguageProcessSpaceIssuesExpressionActivityResearchArt IsConceptsConcernedLogicPhilosophicalAimMethodObjectivesPsychologicalDiscussionHumankindTime And SpaceLinearPseudoTriflingConcept Of Time Author:Gao Xingjian
“A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.” ThinkingDoeFallLanguageGood WorkTrapsNarrow-mindedNationalistic Author:Gao Xingjian
