Gu Cheng

Gu Cheng (b. 1957)

• The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the world of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.
• The country folks here extended their warm hands,
But here there were also the gleaming green eyes of wolves.
- speaking of his family's exile to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution
• The night has given me dark eyes
But I use them to look for light.
• Who is moving in the distance?
It is the clock's pendulum,
Hired by the god of death
To measure life.
• I want to paint windows all over the earth and let eyes accustomed to darkness grow accustomed to light.
- I Am a Willful Child

Syed Qutb
Fakira Baba

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