Though her mother taught little Yu-hsiou piano, her father never formally taught her painting at all. "My father has always felt that children's painting cannot be taught, and he opposed my mother giving me a lot of fine arts instructional materials which he thought would, in fact, drag down any talent I had."
有母親指導鋼琴，然而父親卻是從來沒有「教」過她畫畫，「父親認為孩子的繪畫是不能教的，他經常反對母親給我太多的美術教材，反而把我的天分給抹煞了。」陳慧坤認為，好的老師，是給孩子紙筆和題材，然後任由孩子去發揮。