人民是文艺之母。文学艺术的成长离不开人民的滋养,人民中有着一切文学艺术取之不尽、用之不竭的丰沛源泉。……茅盾说过:“一个做小说的人不但须有广博的生活经验,亦必须有一个训练过的头脑能够分析那复杂的社会现象。”俄国作家托尔斯泰说过:“艺术不是技艺,它是艺术家体验了的感情的传达。”生活就是人民,人民就是生活。
——选自《习近平谈治国理政》(第四卷)
People are the well-spring of literature and art and an inexhaustible source of nourishment and inspiration. They offer a world of subjects that literature and art can build on. …Mao Dun once said, “A writer of novels must not only have extensive life experience but also a well-trained mind, to be able to examine and understand complex social phenomena.” The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy observed, “Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of the feeling that the artist has experienced.” Life is the people, and the people are life.
— Selected from Xi Jinping: The Governance of China IV

