Understanding Abstract Art:
"I mostly use Chinese ink and brush on paper to create abstract art. Abstract art is not too difficult to understand if you try to translate the strokes into emotions. It takes some time and patience. The Chinese brush is soft and round which gives a lot of flexibility and control over the marks. This allows me to combine the brush strokes in a way similar to how a composer combines different sounds to make music."
"我 大部分都使用中国水墨和毛笔来创作抽象艺术作品。如果你尝试将每个笔锋转化为情感，抽象艺术作品就不难理解了。去理解它确实需要一些时间和耐心的，但是为 了成功地欣赏任何艺术作品，这些都是必要的。中国的毛笔是软的也很圆润，这给了我很多的灵活性和在创作时对笔峰的控制。也让我把情绪与不同线条相结合，就 像作曲家结合不同的声音来创作音乐。" -彭文庆
"People often think that art is something someone can purchase or watch. In reality, art and life are inseparable. We use art every day in how we dress and how we speak, but we often don’t think about it. We think about the colors we want to wear and the style we want to portray. We are actually becoming a piece of art that we display to everyone each day through our look, words, and actions.
This is an underlying idea in all of my work. Making art accessible and understandable to everyone gives them more control over their own lives and how they can express themselves more clearly."
"人们常常认为艺术是可以购买或观赏的东西。事实上，艺术与生活是密不可分。我们每天都在使用艺术，比如我们的着装以及我们的谈吐，但我们通常不认为这是艺术。我们想着自己的穿衣颜色和风格。其实我们自己就是一件艺术品，每天都通过我们的外观、语言和行为在展示给每个人。
这是我艺术创作的基本想法：让艺术变的可接近，让每个人都能理解艺术，让每个人能更好的控制自己的生活，以
及更清楚他们是谁。"- 彭文庆
“There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists. Once these were men who took colored earth and roughed out the forms of a bison on the wall of a cave; today some buy their paints, and design posters, to advertise the brand of beer they make. In between there is every variety and degree, but the function remains constant—to this day the painter uses his paints to make a piece of the world which he can call his own. That is the analogy with the cave painter, and it is an analogy which goes deep, not only in terms of technical skill, but in terms of the human condition. The urge to make images is as old as humanity itself, and it is as varied as the human mind. But the word ‘Art’—with its aura of mystery and reverence—has become a bogey or a fetish, an idol to be worshipped or a demon to be feared, rather than a tool for understanding. We must strip away this mystique if we are to see the works of artists for what they truly are: expressions of human experience, shaped by skill, tradition, and imagination.”
- E.H. Gombrich
"I mostly use Chinese ink and brush on paper to create abstract art. Abstract art is not too difficult to understand if you try to translate the strokes into emotions. It takes some time and patience. The Chinese brush is soft and round which gives a lot of flexibility and control over the marks. This allows me to combine the brush strokes in a way similar to how a composer combines different sounds to make music."
"我 大部分都使用中国水墨和毛笔来创作抽象艺术作品。如果你尝试将每个笔锋转化为情感，抽象艺术作品就不难理解了。去理解它确实需要一些时间和耐心的，但是为 了成功地欣赏任何艺术作品，这些都是必要的。中国的毛笔是软的也很圆润，这给了我很多的灵活性和在创作时对笔峰的控制。也让我把情绪与不同线条相结合，就 像作曲家结合不同的声音来创作音乐。" -彭文庆
"People often think that art is something someone can purchase or watch. In reality, art and life are inseparable. We use art every day in how we dress and how we speak, but we often don’t think about it. We think about the colors we want to wear and the style we want to portray. We are actually becoming a piece of art that we display to everyone each day through our look, words, and actions.
This is an underlying idea in all of my work. Making art accessible and understandable to everyone gives them more control over their own lives and how they can express themselves more clearly."
"人们常常认为艺术是可以购买或观赏的东西。事实上，艺术与生活是密不可分。我们每天都在使用艺术，比如我们的着装以及我们的谈吐，但我们通常不认为这是艺术。我们想着自己的穿衣颜色和风格。其实我们自己就是一件艺术品，每天都通过我们的外观、语言和行为在展示给每个人。
这是我艺术创作的基本想法：让艺术变的可接近，让每个人都能理解艺术，让每个人能更好的控制自己的生活，以
及更清楚他们是谁。"- 彭文庆
“There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists. Once these were men who took colored earth and roughed out the forms of a bison on the wall of a cave; today some buy their paints, and design posters, to advertise the brand of beer they make. In between there is every variety and degree, but the function remains constant—to this day the painter uses his paints to make a piece of the world which he can call his own. That is the analogy with the cave painter, and it is an analogy which goes deep, not only in terms of technical skill, but in terms of the human condition. The urge to make images is as old as humanity itself, and it is as varied as the human mind. But the word ‘Art’—with its aura of mystery and reverence—has become a bogey or a fetish, an idol to be worshipped or a demon to be feared, rather than a tool for understanding. We must strip away this mystique if we are to see the works of artists for what they truly are: expressions of human experience, shaped by skill, tradition, and imagination.”
- E.H. Gombrich