There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm… — Jing Hao

There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

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Ching Hao. Ching Hao's Pi-fa-chi: A Note on the Art of Brush, translated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Artebus Asiae Publishers, 1974.
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Ching Hao. Pi-fa-chi [Notes on Brushwork]. c. 925.