Aesthetics

“La poesía trabaja más con el objeto ausente que con la presencia.”

“I leave my brush at Azuma and go on the journey to the Holy West to view the famous scenery there.”

“I think a museum is a bad place to look at art.”

“La poesía es una sola, la buena.”

“苦铁画气不画形”

“我是金石第一，书法第二，花卉第三，山水外行。”

“At one hundred and ten, each dot, each line shall surely possess a life of its own!”

“Every book has its own form.”

“I like the notion of suffering and of guilt driving melancholy.”

“I was always disappointed that paintings didn’t have soundtracks.”

“I started making movies as an extension of painting.”

“الفن إضافة، مفيش حاجة اسمها قولة خَلْق، لكن هو إضافة.”

“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”

“I don’t see music in a way that’s like, Oh, this is right, this is wrong, this is better, this is worse.”

“البلاغة بلوغ المعنى، ولما يطل سفر الكلام”

“White are our deeds; black are our battles; our fields are green; and our swords are red.”

“春潮帶雨晚來急，野渡無人舟自橫。”

“A curse of Abu Nuwas in hell contains more poetry than a laudation of Rakâshi’s in paradise.”