"I was motivated by works on the South American Indian tribes when I was in college. This led to my own research into the aborigines of Pingtung and, eventually, to a thesis paper.
這位體型高瘦、皮膚黝黑的藝術家，談到他研究山地文物的緣由時說：「我在做學生時，就對原始藝術很有興趣，我最欣賞的畫家就是以畫南美土著著名的高更，畢業論文寫的也是原始藝術。