Jeong Seon-PungakNaesanChongramDo

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is Jeong Seon's painting holding in one view the inner ranges of Mount Geumgang in autumn. He did not paint by copying old paintings; he climbed the mountain on his own feet and painted what he saw with his own two eyes. I see this as what made him a great painter. If you copy a mountain another has painted, the mountain remains in the end another's. Only what is climbed and seen for oneself becomes one's own painting. To know anything only by another's words and to know it by walking through it on one's own feet are different. True knowing begins where one sets foot oneself.