Barbara Ann Kipfer - Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

- Barbara Ann Kipfer

topic: Thinking, Views, Land, Landscape Painting