His friend and magazine editor Lin Wen-yi will tell you Chen Chao-pao has an amiable personality, willing to get along with most anyone, but is made of sterner stuff when it comes to painting.
如此堅持，頗令朋友訝異。他的知交，文學家雜誌總編輯林文義說，陳朝寶在個性上，是一個老實得不知如何爭取的人，受了委屈，只會讓步。唯獨對畫例外。