The dog that appears in so many of his paintings was his only childhood friend. The girl in red is Chu-chun. The moody bitterness in his works is not just an artist's mental construction, but a real, searing memory.
畫面中常出現的狗兒，是他幼年時唯一的玩伴，畫面中的紅衣女郎就是竹君，每一張沈鬱苦澀的畫面，都有他一段刻骨銘心的記憶，而非文人思緒的強說愁。