"As the Chinese say, man is a passenger through life who is gone in an instant. Hsia Yang's fuzzy people exist very much within this Eastern philosophical context." So says Fu Shen, one of the judges in the fine arts category for the 2000 National Culture and Arts Foundation awards.
「中國人常說，人是世間的過客，很快就要消失，夏陽的毛毛人很有這樣東方哲理的意思，」第四屆國家文藝獎美術類評審傅申表示。