Li I-hung, who has earned high praise for his modern ink painting work, quotes a Dutch sinologist, who once observed, "To understand Chinese philosophy, one must first understand Chinese landscape paint ing."
在現代水墨中評價甚高的李義弘舉了一位比利時漢學家的話為例，「要瞭解中國哲學，先要看懂中國的山水畫。」