“In my creation, I like to deliver my understanding upon birth, senility, sickness, and death. I intend to use nonchalant attitude toward the absurdity and emptiness of life peruse. Those wounded little people around me are the subjects of my works. Those people are wanderers dingers, women so on and so forth. Painting is my way to interpret life. By means of painting, I express the suppressed self to become long shaped figure painting. Some people say that my paintings look like Modigliani’s. In fact, I specialize in applying Chinese sketch skill by using compact lines to sketch figures’ personalities and dispositions. The background is usually treated by large swaths of colors. On the other hand, I have learned the Western painting skills and used them in my painting, such as expressive colors from Fauvism and gangly modeling from Modigliani. I imagine my characters to be lost in their life or being mis-located at work. However, no matter how frustrated they are, they still have a world that belongs to them. Even if they fail, they never blame the God for not being successful. Rather, they face their destiny with a humble mind, just like Taiwanese’s toughness of dealing with life.” ---My Paintings and Thoughts by Chiu Ya-Tsai