Even omissions are made significant.

In his painting it is visibly true that objects can be rendered conspicuous by their very absence.

You are quite sure you see what on scrutiny you discover to be only the illusion of inevitable inference.

The Far Oriental artist understands the power of suggestion well; for imagination always fills in the picture better than the brush, however perfect be its skill.
Even the neglect of certain general principles which we consider vital to effect, such as the absence of shadows and the lack of perspective, proves not to be of the importance we imagine.

We discover in these paintings how immaterial, artistically, was Peter Schlimmel's sad loss, and how perfectly possible it is to make bits of discontinuous distance take the place effectively of continuous space.
Far Eastern pictures are epigrams rather than descriptions.