"I started to research the history of Eastern and Western culture and fine art," Chen recalls, "and finally I understood the two guiding principles of cultural progress: the concepts that the pendulum always swings back and that things diverge and converge, diverge and converge."
「我開始研究東西方文化史、美術史……，看了近一千本以上的書，最後得到文化進展的兩個指導原則﹘﹘物極必反和『分、合、分、合』的概念」，陳錦芳說。