Li Yu (author)

A portrait of Li Yu

Li Yu (Chinese: 李漁; 1610 – 1680 AD), also known as Li Liweng, was a Chinese playwright, novelist and publisher.

Quotes

• First we look at the hills in the painting,
  Then we look at the painting in the hills.
  • As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1935), pp. 99 and 248
  • 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)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Li Yu (author) on Wikipedia