楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 1.532

1.532

This metaphor precisely reveals the meaning that spoken words and written characters have no reality. The Tathāgata expounds the Dharma according with capacities, just as a painter depicts images according with forms. Yet although an image is accomplished through colors, brush, and silk, in reality it is neither colors, brush, nor silk; it merely borrows them to paint various images in order to please the sentiments of the masses.