During his creative life, as fate would have it, Yu Yu Yang had the chance to visit three great repositories of art: the Yungang grottoes in the 1940s, the Palace Museum in the 1950s (when it was still in Wufeng, Taichung County), and the sheer paradise of Italy's religious art in the 1960s.
在藝術創作過程中，楊英風因緣際會地有三次進入藝術寶庫的經驗：四○年代──雲岡石窟；五○年代──台中霧峰故宮寶藏；六○年代──義大利宗教藝術天堂。