Then one day his former teacher Yen Shui-lung, a great lover of the folk arts, said to him, "Since you're from Miaoli, why don't you use the clay and the pottery tradition there to establish a ceramic style all your own?"
對民間藝術有深厚感情的老畫家顏水龍對他說，你既然來自苗栗，為何不善用家鄉豐盛的陶土和製陶的民風，開拓自己的陶藝世界呢？