Nie, noting that Gao Xingjian is not only an outstanding writer and dramatist but also a quite good painter, says: "Doing stage design for a painter is something you should never ever try," since painters have their own ideas about visual arts, so it's difficult to please them.
聶光炎表示，高行健不僅是一位相當傑出的文學家、編劇家，還是一位相當優秀的畫家，「給畫家做舞台設計，根本是不能做的。」