Monday, 13 August 2018

A Chinese Proverb on Mountains and Painting



Quoted by Beverley Farmer in The Bone House;

 First I saw the mountains in the painting;
then I saw the painting in the mountains.
















Xia Gui


See also, Susan Bush, The Chinese Literati on Painting - p. 136





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