A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.23

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one which has prevailed most strongly throughout its long historical evolution, is the graphic quality of the painting; Chinese painters are, first of all, draughtsmen and calligraphists . . . The different legends all carry out the leading idea of the common origin and essential unity of writing and painting, and this unity is constantly insisted upon by Chinese critics of the two arts.'¹