什么是心？用王阳明的说法，心就是我的灵明。那么我的灵明借笔墨以迹化之，也就是“心画”。中国
画主张写意，意者心音，写意画也就是心画。然而，心有真伪，画有优劣，难免有鱼龙混杂之叹，所以心画贵真，惟得真乃可感人。王宰“十日画一山，五日画一水，能事不受相促迫，王宰始肯留真迹”。八大山人则“攘臂弱管，狂呼大叫，洋洋洒洒数十幅立就，醒时欲求片纸只字不可得，虽置黄金百镒于前不顾也。”而很多一家作画时，惮毁誉于前，惑金钱于后，则必然会进退维谷，左右失据。是画家心志因物累而失其本真澄明之性也，故画现衰、颓、俗、鄙之相，是为作“心画”者戒！
清画家郑板桥曾画一枝竹、十五片叶赠某太守，并题“敢以少少许，胜人多多许，努力作秋声，瑶窗弄风雨。”诗画皆轻松虚灵，极富禅意，寻味无穷，的确，是小中见大，以少少许胜多多许的佳作。至人得意忘形，所谓“何须千万朵，一枝足春风”。是以国画尚简，画小品居多。近人尚力作薄小品，总因市场驱使，买菜求添，与艺术不相干。就艺术而言，其实小品不小，要在内涵蕴藉，堪发人画外之思。如青藤、八大、吴昌硕、齐白石等皆善作小品得高品味。至于东施效颦者，古今皆有之，当不以此辈浅薄而轻小品，则小品幸甚，中国画亦幸甚！
石涛作为一代画僧，其艺术成就之辉煌足使后学高山仰止。其“笔墨当随时代”的理论经常被近代理论家引用，以作为倡言“创新”“棒杀传统”的杀手锏。其实，“时代”只是一个极其模糊的界说，过去，现在，未来三世始终以因果律联系为一体。是以禅者认为：“过去心不可得，现在心不可得，未来心不可得。”所谓不可得是时空流转变迁，无片刻停止的缘故。人和事皆作为世间匆匆过客，虽欲不随时代亦无可奈何。所以历代画家作品无不打着其所属时代的印记。石涛作为亡明宗室，遁迹空门，竟不忘接康熙帝驾以邀宠，其阅历旷达如此，“笔墨随时”固无须论。而同为亡明宗室的八大山人敢终生不与清廷苟合，其不识时务者如此，其画清冷孤傲，不也正是时代留给他的印迹吗？至于明末遗民王鉴，王时繁诸人隐于书画，以摹古寄怀旧之情，其实尔等虽欲“与古人一鼻孔出气”亦不可得，其所处时代使之然也。绘画本抒自家情志，我自画我画。
What is a heart? Wang yangming concludes with the statement, the spirit of the heart is my Ming. So my spirit by pen and ink to trace the mas, also is "XinHua". China
That painting freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, the meaning of one mind, spirit is also XinHua. However, the heart has authenticity, the picture has advantages and disadvantages, hard to avoid has the good and evil people mixed up sighing, so XinHua your true, but so is can be touching. WangZai "10, draw a mountain, five days, water, can not be painting in promoting force, WangZai beginning will leave an original". Eight ShanRen is "RangBei weak tube, KuangHu shout loudly, running with dozens of it, made when awake, though not PianZhiZhiZi desire for gold in the yi despite also before." And many a paint it, Da got in before, after be confused in money, you must dilemma, ShiJu around. Mind is the painter for things and lost its real clear tired of sex, the picture is failure, laid, vulgar, in men, are the "XinHua" quit!
The painter had painted a bamboo, ZhengBanQiao 15 leaf of a TaiShou presented, and write "dare to fewer, DuoDuoXu qisheng people to be the QiuSheng, yao, window get wind and rain." Poetry is relaxed virtual spirit, extremely rich buddhist meaning, XunWei is, indeed, it is small in see big, with fewer wins DuoDuoXu construction. To people complacency, the so-called "why must one, a foot spring breeze". In the traditional Chinese painting is Jane, draw sketch in the majority. To approach is still works thin sketch, always driven by market and buy food for add, and art irrelevant. Is art is concerned, in fact not small sketch, through the connotation, can send people the thought of songs. Such as evergreen cane, eight, WuChangShuo, qi baishi are good for sketch high taste. As for the DongShiXiaoPin ancient, modern, universal, and when this generation shallow, light sketch, the sketch to have, Chinese paintings have also!
As a famous painting and monk, her artistic achievement enough to make the brilliance of his GaoShanAngZhi. The "ink when with The Times" theory is often modern theorists cited, as advocate "innovation" "BangSha traditional"'s ace in the hole. In fact, the "times" is just a very vague definition, in the past, the present and the future iii has always been to the law of cause for a body contact. Is the zen thought: "the past heart shall not have to, now, the future heart not heart shall not have to." The so-called is not time and space circulation change, no moment stops's sake. People and things are as the world in a hurry traveler, though not with The Times to also have no alternative. So in all the work under its own the marks of the era. As a famous dead Ming imperial clan, DunJi an empty net, did not forget the kangxi emperor to pick up in YaoChong, the life experience so, "ink at any time" without solid theory. And the same for the death of imperial clan of the eight ShanRen dare not lie with marked for life, the luddites such, its painted aloof and lonesome, it is time to his mark? As for the late Ming dynasty James, hidden in the numerous boss who the calligraphy and painting, or send to the nostalgia, in fact though thy desire "and the ancients a nose out" also do not have to, the place of the age but also. Painting the express their own gentle disposition, I from painting I draw.
