He devoted all his free time to drawing, but in that era when aesthetics were neither rewarded nor encouraged by society, he comments, "To say that your ambition in life was to go into the arts was about as honorable as saying you wanted to be a drug addict."
雖然整日埋首畫畫消磨時間，但在那樣一個缺乏美學養分的年代，他形容「以藝術為志向，就像宣告吸毒一樣不光采。」