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"In writing one sees the 'hanging needle', the dropping dew; crashing thunder, falling rock, flying bird, startled beast. Heavy as breaking clouds, light as the cicada's wings, graceful as the new moon, independent as the stars- it equals the exquisiteness of nature and is not to be accomplished by human effort."
-A Tang dynasty calligrapher, on how Chinese calligraphy draws from Nature.
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-A Tang dynasty calligrapher, on how Chinese calligraphy draws from Nature.
