Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé (1987)

Olivier Cruveiller: Ling

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Ling : [referring to the emperor and his court]  They're not the kind of people to loose themselves in a painting.

• Ling : Wang-Fô taught me to appreciate the representation of reality rather than reality itself.

• [first lines] 

  Ling : I met Wang-Fô one night in a tavern. The old painter had been drinking and the alcohol loosened an otherwise taciturn tongue. Wang-Fô talked as if silence were a wall and words were shapes designed to cover it.

• Ling : We traveled light because my master likes the images of things and not the things themselves. We were poor and exchanged paintings for a little food, but in my bag were snow-covered mountains, rivers in springtime, and the faces of the summer moon.