“Let us look at a landscape. A splashing single stroke, a group of tiny dots, a blank on the paper — all these, if we appreciate and understand Chinese painting — inspire us to see beauty and poetry. We see beauty and poetry in them because we respond to their allusive qualities.”
“I was influenced by the same philosophy that guides every Chinese artist, be he poet, painter or musician; affinity to nature in conception, allusiveness in expression, and terseness in realization.”