"Serene and pure, its nature is calm and silent, resembling nothing concrete. Within it lies only emptiness; outside, only nothingness. Abiding in this state for long, impurities naturally settle—this is the very root of the Dao."
The clerical script of Zhao Zhiqian is imbued with the structural logic and brushwork of Wei steles. He stands as a philosopher of script, generating within clerical forms a distinctly monumental, stele-like vision.

釋文：幽清元靜，冥默，不象，厥中惟虛，厥外惟無。如是久焉，斯以冥滓，蓋乃道之根。
解說：趙之謙的隸書富含許多魏碑的結字及筆法，是典型的在隸書中生成出魏碑的哲學家。