Calligrapher’s note:

In ancient times, people delighted in beholding stones,
in playing with them, in painting them—
but where lies the reason?

Some say: a stone’s silence is its greatest charm.

Among all the marvels beneath heaven and earth,
none surpass the wondrous book,
the wondrous stone,
and the wondrous script.

To possess these three together
is like a dark-blue dragon riding the six breaths of nature,
wandering free in boundless ease.

書法家筆記：

古人喜觀石、翫石、寫石，其理安在？或云：石不能言最可人。若夫天地之間最奇者，乃奇書、奇石、奇字也！如三者得之，恰似蒼龍之乘六氣而逍遙也！