“If a child knows what he should know and does not know what he should not, his childhood will be very happy. But when I was a child, I did not know what I should know, and I knew what I should not, hence all kinds of bewilderments continue to follow me today.” ChildhoodChildhood Memories Book:An Empty Room Source: An Empty Room
“Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.” IdeasRememberRecordsAdviceImpressionNow And ThenHardy Author: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.” KnowsFirstsMayCulturePrinciplesModernWindBoundariesConnectednessNo BoundariesWhirlwindModern Culture Author: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.” ArtIdeasMiddleLowsDistanceBackgroundsVisibleWorks Of ArtHorizonForeground Author: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.” IdeasTurnsBrokenInvisibleImpressionStringsPearlsNecklacesImpressionismDispensable Author:Mu Xin
“If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.” IfsAsksLeftChinaAsk MeFar Away Author: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.” FeelsPersonsTwoWould BeThreeTediousLife Going On Author:Mu Xin
“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.” WritingTwoPlaySpaceRoomsOppositesParadoxOpposingSpace Between Author: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.” ShouldFictionDoorsWindowProseUncommon Author:Mu Xin
“What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.” ArtArt IsShiningFinalsAnalysis Author:Mu Xin
“Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.” FirstsFineIntelligentLibraryImposing Author:Mu Xin
