In 1986, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, who had already moved to America, came back to Taiwan to visit relatives. When I saw her graceful bearing as she left the airplane-saw how sharp and wise she was, and how bursting with vitality and determination-I realized that she was quite different from my earlier rendering of her.
民國七十五年底，離台赴美定居的蔣夫人回台探視，我在電視上看到蔣夫人下機的風采神情，覺得和我原先那幅畫有很大的差別，蔣夫人看來十分聰慧、俐落，充滿了活動力和決斷力，我當即決定再畫一幅夫人的像。