"Most of the time, he would notice even if one of your shoelaces was untied," Sun says, describing him as "an old fussbudget." "If you consider how he painted and how he built his garden, you'll realize that an artist has to have both types of personality."
常勸老師「何必為小事嘔氣」，孫家勤就用「極重小節的乾淨老頭」來形容大千先生，「看老師作畫、看老師造園，就知道這兩種性格都是藝術家必備的。」