"Every morning, I would awake among the collective song of Japanese white eyes, Chinese bulbuls, and oriental turtle doves, and through the seasons I would smell the different flowers in bloom. I would think that I wanted to create something as beautiful as the blooming flowers and the gyrating calls of the birds--that I would paint."
「每天早上我在綠繡眼、白頭翁、山斑鳩輪唱的協奏曲中醒來，聞著四季綻放的不同花香，心裡就想著，我不輸給盡情綻放的花、也不輸給婉轉啼唱的鳥，我要畫畫。」