Greatly admiring a poem that Qing-dynasty literatus Zheng Banqiao had written to adorn a painting, he invoked the poem's spirit in his own compositions: "Bamboo shoots, one, two, three; bamboo leaves, four, five, six. By nature these things are light and airy; why should they be heavy and ponderous?"
他很喜歡清朝大才子鄭板橋題的一幅詩畫，並把這首詩的精神用在自己的作品中：「一二三支竹竿，四五六片竹葉；自然淡淡疏疏，何必重重疊疊？」