Ideograms in China
...In this particular calligraphy -- this art of the temporal, expressing as it does trajectory, passage -- its most admirable quality (even more than its harmony or vivacity) is its spontaneity. This spontaneity runs, sometimes, to the point of shattering.
No longer to imitate, but signify nature. By strokes, darts, dashes.
Ascesis of the immediate, of the lightning bolt.
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