In the long handscroll paintings of the Northern Song dynasty, the use of space and unpainted areas in landscapes, and even the rolling and unrolling of the scrolls themselves, is nothing other than the concrete expression in the Chinese visual arts of Laozi's "departure, distance, and return."
北宋的長卷繪畫，畫中山水的空間、留白，甚至卷軸的卷收與展放，恰恰是老子「逝、遠、返」在中國視覺藝術上的具體實踐。