The two men became engrossed in animated discussions about modern art and made plans to publish some of the ideas they'd discussed as a dialogue, in a similar vein to the Analects of Confucius.
倆人激起對現代藝術的討論，相談甚歡下，欲仿效孔子《論語》和歌德《談藝錄》的對談方式，遂有成書計劃。