Bui Xuan Phai, "the painter of Ha Noi".

"To talk on and on about art is nonsense," Bui Xuan Phai once wrote. "Plunge yourself into painting. For if you don't paint often or don't paint at all, you are not professional. Speak less to have more time for painting; your occupation is not speaking but painting. It's a mute art, an art for people to view--not to listen to."

















"To paint wrongly? To paint rightly? Both are bad. The thing is how to paint beautifully," he wrote.