"A Scholar's rock is a little piece of a wrinkle from which you can imagine the whole wrinkle, it is a little piece of a rock from which you can imagine the whole rock, it is a little piece of the mountain from which you can imagine the whole mountain."

Richard Rosenblum
Art of the Natural World, pg. 39


"I believe Chinese scholar's rocks are finding a place in contemporary sensibilities, in part because we now have a context for understanding them on their own terms. The science of chaos theory and its mathematical component, fractal geometry, have affinities to the Chinese concept of "worlds within worlds." The Chinese arrived there by way of religion and philosophy; we arrive there by way of science and technology, but our paths converge."

Richard Rosenblum
Worlds Within Worlds, 1996


"In assembling the world's finest and most comprehensive collection of scholar's rocks, Richard has renewed enthusiasm for an art teetering on the brink of extinction; in so doing he not only opened an arena for collectors but has awakened art historical interest in a field that, until he brought it to light, few scholars even knew existed."

Robert Mowry
Curator of Chinese Art
Arthur Sackler Museum, Harvard University