Modern Chinese painters should combine Chinese artistic traditions with the essentials of Western art to create something new. This is the opinion of Ho Hwai-shouh, an innovative Chinese artist who recently returned to Taiwan after living in the U.S. for four years and visiting many foreign art galleries.
十幾年來，何懷碩對藝術所懷抱的信念，對西方現代藝術的批判，對國內畫壇的觀察與見解，以及他對建設現代中國畫的理想，不僅見諸言論，也實行於創作之中，但是，為了求得進一步的瞭解與證實，好修正或堅定以往的想法和作法，何懷碩到美國待了四年。