"Judging the person by his calligraphy" or "criticizing the calligraphy because of the person" --both viewpoints inevitably tend to be too subjective. Yet calligraphic masterpieces certainly give people more than just an external visual sensation; often they are the display of a calligrapher's personality and life.
雖然「以字論人」或「以人非字」都不免失之主觀，但書法大家的墨寶確實給人不光只有表面視覺的感受，常是書者人格、生命的展現。