Wednesday, December 22, 2010

On An Exhibition

On An Exhibition

And there was a most wonderful, majestic, stately mountain surrounded by dark, heavy, angry clouds, a grand painting in the traditional Chinese style. But on the exhibition was also a little Chinese “picture”: perhaps a weed with a tiny single flower, so tender, so modest, so pure, so cherishing …

That was what the painter saw: unlimited in beauty, even in what is small, unnoticed, so common, an ordinary sight for our eyes. Just a few strokes of his brush were eloquent enough to render this.

1977

December 2010

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