In addition to using common materials, calligraphy and painting have long been thought of as springing from the same creative source and requiring the same technical skills in execution, an idea concisely expressed by Zhao Mengfu (12541322), a leading master of the early Yuan dynasty (12791368), in his famous poetic dictum describing identical technical approaches to writing and painting:
Do the rocks in flying-white, the trees in ancient seal script,
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