"First we look at the hills in the painting, Then we look at the painting in the hills."
— Li Yu (author)

January 1, 1970

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Compare: — We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we've passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted,—better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out. — Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855)