From youth to old age, Ho Te-Iai's emergence and position in the art world were invariably avant garde. He was avant garde without trying to be: not in conflict with tradition, but in harmony with it.
從少年到白髮，他的出現，他的姿態，一直都是前衛，然而在不為前衛而前衛之下，他的前衛和傳統不但不相抵觸，反而可以相通。