The twin prerogatives of timeliness and creativity have made Kuo an artistic chameleon. Not beholden to any particular style, he flits between abstraction and realism, or when the fancy seizes him, combinations of the two. He boldly mixes Chinese characters with Western painting methods. He firmly maintains that “ art needs to express zeitgeist in order to be fresh. ” That was why Picasso was always inventing and reinventing himself.
為求表現時代性與創新精神，郭東榮一再求變，畫作形式全無拘泥，有時抽象、有時具象，有時抽象與具象融合，甚至將東方文字與西方油畫結合，他堅持「美術要有符合時代精神的造形表現」，如同畢卡索，要不斷求新求變 — — 創作、破壞、再創作。