Professor Sun Chia-chin, a painter who lived at Eight Virtues Garden for more than two years and was one of Chang Ta-chien's prized pupils, has a similar impression: "Whatever he took a liking to he had to get.
大千居士的入門弟子，在八德園住了兩年多的名畫家孫家勤教授也做了同樣的印證：「只要老師看上眼的，就一定要得到，揮金如土，在所不惜。」