Mu Xin Quotes & Sayings

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

I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake. — 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

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

Freedom, freed of all external boundaries, are still confined within us--their sensitivity often causing bewilderment. — 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

The genius of happiness is not an innate genius but a product of deliberate cultivation. — Mu Xin

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

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

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

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