ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, French/Chinese, 1920-2013)

In Chinese, the word "landscape" is created from the characters "shan" and "shui," meaning mountains and water. But I prefer the word "nature," because it calls into being a much broader world: the intersection of multiple spaces in a painting creates something like a universe, in which the wind and the atmosphere breathe and flow freely.
-Zao Wou-ki