As Huang Kuang-nan, Director of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and a ink painter himself, points out, Lao Zi is a proponent of the notion that: "The five colors make people blind and the five sounds make people deaf."
本身也是水墨畫家的高雄市立美術館館長黃光男，在他的著作《藝海微瀾》中指出，老子主張「損之又損」，又說「五色令人目盲，五音令人耳聾」。