Fortunately, his exceptional single-mindedness overcame his congenital shortcoming. Refusing to admit defeat, Yang kept painting. The Grape King In the 1980s, Yang saw William Henry Hunt's Primroses and Bird's Nest in a foreign-language book in Lee's house, and noted that Hunt's work differed from the indoor still lifes common in Taiwan.
1980 年間，有回楊恩生在李焜培老師住處的一本原文畫冊中，看到 19 世紀英國水彩畫家威廉・亨利・亨特的〈櫻草花與鳥巢〉，有別於國內的室內靜物寫生，亨特是將大自然的環境整個搬進畫室，描繪葡萄、瓜果、籐籃、鳥巢… …。