Olivier Cruveiller credited as playing...
Ling
- [last lines]
- Ling: [referring to the emperor and his court] They're not the kind of people to loose themselves in a painting.
- [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.