Li Yu (author)



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

Quotes
Then we look at the painting in the hills.''' 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.
 * '''First we look at the hills in the painting,
 * As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1935), pp. 99 and 248
 * Compare:
 * We're made so that we love
 * Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855)