1. Nowadays, people are too sophisticated and cowardly. It is better to live than to die. They have little faith and living is the most important thing.

2. Art is a lie. But now we don't lie, stupidly there.

3. I think the most essential thing about poetry is that it can use the most abstract language to express the most subtle emotions in people's hearts. Also, being able to express the most complex emotions in the simplest language.

4. I cherish breathing more than work. Accepting something and rejecting something are actually the same thing.

5. In this huge conspiracy, those who are really being used are our generations. The real purpose of respecting Lu Xun is to make us ignorant, make us doubtless, and make us blindly follow him. Ideological dogma.

6. I have always envied them for surviving their youth in the 1980s, experiencing beatles, emancipating their minds, and being able to live in exile in other countries.

7. Perhaps half of our motivations for playing with art are inspired by inspiration or enthusiasm, and most of them are probably due to long-standing habits.

8. There is no need to let everyone know the real you, or there is no need for you to keep telling people what kind of person I am. Because this is ineffective, people will still only want to see what they want to see. I even think it's good that you hide your true self behind these misunderstandings.

9. I yelled for a long time, but when I was about to leave, I realized that I was completely wrong: there was no education problem, it was all a power problem.

10. I come and go freely in this world. Whether in various cities, villages, or even countries, I walk freely without worrying about food and clothing. I rely on my own independent labor to make a living for myself. In exchange for enough money, I can live the most enjoyable life and drive here and there by myself. I find it very wonderful to go to different places to write on vacation, make all kinds of friends, and drink all kinds of wine.

11. Every time I see this kind of sketch from the pre-examination class, I want to die. I think I would rather never draw in my life.

12. Every time I give a speech, young people come up to ask for autographs and photos. I have to play with them, otherwise they will hurt their self-esteem. Now let me say something serious. A truly promising young man would not do such things.

13. Stupidity may mean unreserved belief and passion, which comes from sincerity that cannot be persuaded.

14. The art world of this year was revolutionized by a collective obsession with the 1980s that started at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art.

15. Young people have very limited vision and are lost in most information, but information does not equal vision.

16. "If you can't be a writer, you can be a painter. If you can't be a painter, you can just grow your hair long and wear a big tie." This is what Lu Xun blurted out when he was teasing the incompetent literary youth of the last century. Unexpectedly, since then, young people with long hair have continued to appear one after another: I myself only painted a few strokes when I was young, and my success in my debut was far away, so what should I do, what the hell, I should grow my head full of long hair first!

17. My experience is that it’s not about reading too much, but reading over and over again. If you like a book, you have to read it several times before you have read it and you can get into it.

18. Every book will become your room, giving you shelter and quietness.

19. For several generations of us, including today’s college students born in the 1980s and 1990s, every word they speak and every word they write is the party’s language and culture. Apart from this language, we have no other language. , there is no other way to express it.

20. I don’t remember ever encountering a homosexual that disgusted me. Some gay people are disgusting, but not because they are gay. Heterosexuals, those so-called "naturalistic" people, aren't there too many people who are disgusting?

21. If Van Gogh lived to be eighty or ninety years old, he would not be able to paint to the level of Jiang Zhaohe, nor to the level of Kolowitz. But every time I see Van Gogh, it’s this painting. This meaningless painting is just a bastard standing on the beach. I just thought to myself, this is real painting, this is real art. I will forget Jiang Zhaohe, I will forget Koluzhi, and I will forget the many amazing and skillful hands that I like, and I will be helpless.

22. The numerous errors in personnel and historical records are second to none. The most frightening thing is that the chain of rumors that has been passed down from generation to generation has long been recognized and solidified: in fact, they cannot be credulous, and they all have problems.

In particular, careful consideration must be given to whether the speaker and the person being spoken of are of the same generation. When I read Mr. Yang Kuisong's history books in recent years, I felt this way: only after several generations of fighting over state affairs and party affairs could we get a relatively accurate and fair explanation. Discussions and rash writing are often suspected of being frivolous and unethical.

23. That winter, I got Orr's key and opened the door to Room 501 at 223 West 42nd Street. The smell of turpentine that had accumulated over the years hit my face. After peeing and lighting a cigarette, I could neither sit nor stand in the fifty-square-meter room. I just felt as young as when I first came to Jinggangshan. This was my first studio of my own!

24. As long as people sit down and write articles, even if they write about the moon in the sky or the wormwood on the ground, they are actually "talking about themselves."

25. The Internet is just a stage, not a program. The world, and the feelings about the world, are made up of many things. The Internet cannot replace the world or feelings.

26. I know people like to have answers. Having answers makes you feel safe and at ease. But my temper is that I don’t care about answers, I like to ask questions.

27. Art itself is the embodiment of philosophy. The best art rarely "looks like art" to begin with, is never beautiful, and is often ugly and boring to the masses.

28. If you play with something for a long time, it will definitely turn around and play with you.

29. Young people still see very limited things and are lost in too much information. Information does not equal vision.

30. There are always sporadic moments of ecstasy in life, which are often remembered.

31. People will inevitably have preferences and tendencies, but the prerequisite is judgment and choice.

32. People who are truly not bored are those who are alone at home, doing what they want to do, and enjoying themselves very much in front of any excitement.

33. Our generation is lucky. We live in an era when there is no government and the country is extremely rich. We can do whatever we want and compete for profit. We do not have to endure the humiliation that Master Shengtian and his father and ancestors frequently suffered. and setbacks; today's youth are unfortunate: in addition to taking exams, pursuing careers, chasing after the times, and being content with a small amount of power, they only have a mediocre and mediocre resume, only recognize the popular and doubtful single value, and have no weight of personality. , not to mention the plot of life.

34. What is heresy? I’m not going against the grain, going against the grain, or going to extremes. I would say that the characteristics of a heretic are disagreement and great compassion.

35. Painting is a visual art. If you cannot see the real thing, everything is empty talk, just like a group of deaf people talking about music. However, tens of millions of painters and art lovers across the country have been talking about art in vain for more than half a century. Ignorant people like me have to teach ignorant students today.

36. We can see our own depth and depth from contemporary Chinese drama culture, music culture and stage aesthetics.

37. If you don’t learn early, you won’t learn later. It happened that at that time, I wiped out oil paints and learned to paint Western paintings, which was “impossible”. As a result, what I painted was the chubby and smiling Chairman Mao: he became a super model who became popular all over the country in the early years of the "**". Among tens of millions of** oil paintings, the only "half**" is also Chairman Mao. : I saw him wearing a yukata with his shoulders and chest half exposed after swimming, and he was waving kindly.

38. There are many poor people in the world. There were many in the past and there are many now. If you want pity people to think about pity things all the time, it will be pity.

39. Based on my experience and memory, the day when democracy is realized is not a peaceful world. Just like when the revolution is successful, the world is particularly unpredictable. I care about the morality of the crowd, the normality of society, and whether the bottom line has been lost.

40. The most important thing is the sentence "no more humiliation". Nowadays, intellectuals will not say this sentence. Accepting insults, getting used to insults, and bringing humiliation to oneself has long been the habit of contemporary intellectuals. Professional and very skilled.

41. A fun person knows how to laugh at himself and how to advance and retreat. He is always relaxed, playful and open-minded.

42. Some people think they are inferior for not going to college, and some people think they are awesome for going to college. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you go to college or not, and which college you go to. The important thing is that you didn’t give up on yourself even though you didn’t go to college. What matters is what you do after you go to college. No matter how good a university is, there are scumbags, and no matter how bad a university is, there are still talented people.

It's not the university that determines your future, but what kind of university and what kind of environment you go to, you know what kind of person you want to be.

43. Artists are born, and so are scholars. The meaning of "natural" does not refer to the so-called "genius", but to the fact that he really had to do this thing and nothing could stop him, so he did it all the way and became the kind of person he wanted to be.

44. All people are created equal. That is the slogan of the French. It is a wish, not a fact. You have double eyelids, but I have single eyelids? People are not equal as soon as they emerge from the mother's womb. The key is to establish a mechanism that embodies justice in a society with great disparities, so that the poor can also benefit from the wealth in society. Justice is impossible, balance is possible. The current problem in China is not the disparity between rich and poor, but unfairness and imbalance.

45. You asked me what kind of memory it was. To be honest, it was just a slight jealousy. I was jealous that I was young at the time, twenty-seven years old.

46. When values ??are confused, money will become the standard.

47. People can’t actually see their own faces clearly. The words left in black and white are like looking in the mirror.

48. Lu Xun has long said that by the time you write something or talk, it means you are useless. The people who really do things stay silent, don't say anything, and just do it. I have two attitudes now. One is that talking is useless, so second, keep talking. This is the last right, that's all.

49. In a normal country and society, those who study philosophy read philosophy, and those who watch popular dramas watch popular dramas. Unlike here, groups turn in stages, and sometimes everyone seeks the truth, and sometimes everyone recognizes the truth. Secularism, a balanced and normal ecology, does not yet exist.

50. I have limited knowledge. The friend laughed and said: What is this? There are many hotels in various places, and the "classes" of age, appearance, and figure are divided according to the level of the hotel. The hotel I went to is considered "high-end" in that area, and the girls are naturally outstanding. , I work every night and don’t go out during the day.

51. Human growth is not actually knowledge. In fact, there is a core problem behind everyone's growth, that is, he knows that time has passed.

52. What really happens is that a great artist will contribute unfamiliar standards. Before Cézanne or Picasso, many standards didn't exist. They are people who challenge established standards while setting new ones.

53. After you worked hard to study in college, your salary is two thousand yuan a month, which is not as good as that of a nightclub girl. How much does this subvert traditional Chinese culture? In the past, I studied hard to get ahead in my humble life. What do I rely on today? The second generation of officials, the second generation of rich people. I think the root cause of today's problems is not the change of people's hearts, but the result of the solidification of the entire social class. Our young people have very few opportunities to get ahead, if not at all!

54. The older you get, the less stupid you become. Youth is precious, and half of it means being stupid. I really wish I could go back stupidly.

55. I am obsessed with how the context of a sentence is connected together. It is so clever that no matter how you read it, you will be moved and convinced. This is the secret of writing. If you change a word, the effect will be gone. Rhetoric is very important.

56. Freedom will not fall from the sky. Are you free? Are you free in your heart? Can your ability and knowledge set you free?

57. Ecology is like this: the weeping willows on the roadside and the pines and cypresses on the cliff bank do not like each other and recognize each other. I was often surprised by how little American artists knew about the so-called messages from the European and American art world. Later, I gradually understood that they don’t need to know too much. They themselves are the “message,” just like how every species proves itself.

58. I have been ignorant and stupid all the way, but the stupidity in the poverty era has nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to show off. Now I may be a little smarter, just because I have gradually got rid of stupidity, and I am willing to continue to get rid of it: I don’t need to compare with foreign countries, the object of comparison is myself.

59. Students are also empowered. They are young and receive power education. They agree with power in everything. When they come out into society, the country will hand over such students.

60. When Sartre talked about music, he once expressed this opinion: It is absurd to crowd into the concert hall to watch the performance. Music should be listened to alone.

61. In addition, when you face a single face, it is sometimes difficult to confirm his (her) species and bloodline - the Russian beauties that struck me are generally a strange mixture of animality and elegance. With a sense of culture, the lively face of the young man is the kind of simplicity and innocence I am used to seeing in free countries, and the Russian thoughtfulness (sometimes, appearance is the expression) can make an ordinary face look noble.

62. Translation does not test how many foreign languages ??you know, but how good your Chinese is.

63. Lu Xun is a face that has long been simplified. Lu Xun said a long time ago that if you want to kill someone, you must kill him by scolding him or by praising him. Everyone has now seen that in the past half century, Hu Shi was scolded and killed, and Lu Xun was praised and killed.

64. I am not immune to worldliness. I often feel ashamed in front of Mark and Al, who are frank and have no scheming. How dissimilar and irrelevant these two American guys are, but every time I think about them, I always feel like they are the same guy: both married to European wives, both fathers of three children, tall, healthy, with a baritone voice. He shook hands and looked me directly in the eyes, with a stern student tone and youthful air.

65. So the conflict in Beijing you mentioned, I call it cultural jet lag. Physically and psychologically, we cannot adapt, but we have to adapt. Have you ever experienced jet lag after a transoceanic flight: You are so sleepy and want to sleep, but it happens to be early in the morning, so what do you do, you just have to cheer up.

66. The consequence of respecting Lu Xun exclusively is not that we only know Lu Xun and not others, but that we don’t even know Lu Xun and have to ask.

67. I actually want to be an artist - this does not mean who I want to be or who I want to be, but it expresses a kind of value: no matter whether you keep your head down and go to work or have billions of assets in your life, you will see clearly when the time comes. If you think about it, it seems that being an artist is the most free, romantic and unrestrained.

68. I am most afraid of seeing young people with low self-esteem, but our education makes you more and more low-self-esteem.

69. If you remember and keep remembering the images in the painting, it is a good painting. Another way is to look at a painting repeatedly. If you discover something new every time, it is a good painting.

70. Our appreciation of Western classical music is still a "literary activity", but for "them" it is "life".

71. The early works are all simple, but vigorous; they are all childish, but innocent; and then they are inevitably rough, but full of energy.

72. So I give up letting most people understand me. It is enough for one or two people I care about to understand me.

73. You and I both have to go through Mr. Mu Xin’s last days. We both have to survive alone and finally give up in loneliness.

74. Good movies can successfully convey experiences to various groups of people.

75. Don’t criticize TV series, don’t treat them as art, they are life. If you watch a movie for me, I will immediately worry about which lens is not used well and which light is not used well. Why do you care about these in a TV series? How deep or shallow, I don’t care. If I don't like it, just change the channel.

76. Life is short. If you are not afraid of being hungry every day, you are afraid that you will not have fun.

77. The people almost don’t know it, and they don’t care about being fooled. They are so perfect that they start to fool themselves.

78. Everyone has a different historical perspective when writing articles. Some people seem to not need any historical perspective. There is a spiritual realm behind the words, which is like digging a well or gardening, or modern savings. There is some basic nature. Since I was young, I have been reading, observing, and having a positive attitude towards life, so I naturally have something to say.

79. It’s not that he has exhausted his talents, it’s that he is a mediocre person who uses himself to save others; nor can it be said that because of his mental illness, there are many mentally ill patients in the world. What is it? Perhaps a rare kind of honesty to oneself. A close friend of the great Italian director Pasolini said in an analysis of his last controversial film that Pasolini "no longer liked himself" in this film. Soon, Pa Shi died in a tragedy caused by himself.

80. The good thing about music is that it is fleeting. It is the so-called art of time and the art of the spiritual world.

81. Literature cannot rebuild a city-state, but it comforts and even encourages ambitious people who use various methods to rebuild their own world.

82. So far, do we have a song that is more than a hundred years old and is familiar to generations of people and sings it with the same voice?

83. Under the current education system, a student may become a lecturer from a bachelor's degree to a master's or doctoral degree, then a lecturer to an associate senior professor, and then a professor. Spend money to buy a copy and publish it in a magazine, so you can get by. So these professors don't have time to attend classes and care about their students.

84. When Qu Yuan wrote poems, he must have known that he was immortal. Every great artist has measured himself fairly during his lifetime. Some people couldn't bear it and spoke out, such as Dante and Pushkin. There are people who don't say anything, like Tao Yuanming, who can't bear to say anything.

85. As long as I get angry, I have to keep my face for the public twenty-four hours a day.

86. I walked around and looked up. The stone pillars and porcelain surfaces that had been worn and scrubbed for hundreds of years shone with a rounded shimmer. They were extremely beautiful, extremely beautiful, but I was not afraid, shocked or overwhelmed. Attract, without distraction - this is what I call strict, and what I mean by strict is that when you enter His Highness, you are not allowed to think wildly, and you can only kneel down and worship.

87. Life is meaningless and has always been blind. The previous generation of intellectuals received materialist education and progress theory education. It affirms that people are valuable and meaningful, that the world is progressing, and that everything we do is necessary, should be like this, and is moving forward—all the distress, lawsuits, arrogance, and disasters come from here.

88. I stay away from that thing called ‘style’, and works that deliberately highlight personal talents and expression methods.

89. We didn’t have any bars at that time, but we had a lot of parties, like-minded people, smart people, some people gathered together, relying entirely on language, temperament, wit, and generosity. , live like this day and night, the most important thing is that everyone has time.