Zhang Chao 張潮
1690s · Qing China
A person should try to be fit for a poem; a thing should try to be fit for a painting.
人須求可入詩，物須求可入畫。Dream Shadows (Youmengying)
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Gong Xian 龔賢
1690s · Qing China
Things that cannot go into a painting: pigs, money, and nasty young men.
物之不可入畫者，豬也，阿堵物也，惡少年也。A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
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