It's unusual that a child from a poor family like himself should achieve such considerable status in the painting community. Even more noteworthy is that even when the craze for gallery openings hit Taiwan in the late 1980s, he could maintain the purity of his art and his insistence on painting for its own sake.
難得的是，窮孩子出身的他在畫壇有了相當地位，又適逢八○年代後期台灣畫壇狂飆時，卻依然能守住藝術純淨的崗位，堅持不為什麼而畫。