“Not seeing the mountain, being frustrated in one’s quest, can be far more riveting to the imagination than succeeding in beholding what one sought… In Ku His’s classical pattern of Chinese landscape art, the subtle appeal of mountains is rooted in the artist’s skillful craft of omission; the peaks are half-dissolved in clouds. This is why the metaphor of the cloud-covered mountain serves so well in speaking of a divine mystery beyond human comprehension.”
–Belden Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, p. 103
