Yue Minjun famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but canâ€™t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

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