In an interview before her death, Yang spoke of various obstacles facing Chinese artists in America, one being the lack of connections, another being the language barrier, and a third being the difficulty for people in the West of grasping the spirit of Eastern art.
生前在一次訪問中，楊蕙如提到中國藝術家在美發展障礙：一是缺乏人脈，二是語言障礙，三為西方不易瞭解東方藝術精神。