Everyone asks, "where is the picture good?" It's hard to answer for a moment. However, it can be summed up, can be seen, no more than three points: that is to see its weather, ink, charm, if the three points to meet the standard, that is, good painting, otherwise it will not be good painting. We look at a picture, take a standard to measure, see whether its composition texturing method is robust, the weather is high, there is no affectation, whether the coming and going is clear. Strong and not bold, thin and not delicate, to do so, the first criterion is quite different.

接下来第二个标准，看它的笔墨风格是否既不同于古人或并世的作者，又能在自己塑独特风格中，多有变异，摒去陈规旧套，自创新貌。而在新貌之中，却又笔笔有来历，千变万化，使人猜测不到，捉摸不清，寻不到规律，但自有规律在。做到这些，第二个标准也就通过了。

The next second criteria, to see whether the style of the pen and ink is different from the ancients or the author of the world, and in their own unique style, there are many variations, get rid of the old set of stereotypes, create a new appearance. But in the new appearance, Bibi has the origin, the ever-changing, which makes people guess, but can not find the law, but has its own laws. To do this, the second standards are passed.

第三个标准要有韵味。一幅画打开来，第一眼就有一种艺术的魅力，能抓住人，往下看，使人玩味无穷。看过之后，印入脑海，不能即忘，而且还想看第二遍。气韵里面，还包括气息。气息近乎品格，每每和作者的人格调和一致。所以古人说：“人品既高，画品不得不高。”一种纯正不凡的气味，健康向上的力量，看了画，能陶情悦性，变化气质，深深地把人吸引过去，这样第三个标准也就通过了。

The third standards should be flavour. When a picture is opened, there is an artistic charm at first. It can catch people, look down, and make people play with infinity. After reading it, you can't forget it, and want to see it second times. In the rhyme, it also includes the breath. Breath is close to character, often with the style and consistency of the author. Therefore, the ancients said: "character is high, and painting has to be high." A pure and uncommon smell, healthy and upward force, see the painting, can pottery, change temperament, deeply attract the past, so that the third standards are passed.

学画早年成名，不一定是好事。成了名，应酬多了，妨碍基本功的锻炼，也没有工夫去写字读书，有碍于提高。所以学画切忌名利心太多。

It is not necessarily a good thing to be famous in the early years of learning and painting. Being famous, many social activities interfere with the exercise of basic skills, and there is no time to write or read. So school and painting do not have too much fame and profit.

年纪轻，扎扎实实做些基本的功去，博收众长，冶炉自铸，逐渐形成自己的风格。但这种风格也不宜凝固不变。30岁定了型，到60岁还是这样，说明不再探索，坐吃老本。所以必须变，不断地变。

At a young age, we should do some basic work and gain a lot of experience. But this style should not solidify. At the age of 30, the age of 60 is still the case. So it must change and change constantly.

一个成名的画家，有早年、中年、晚年之分，各个阶段，虽然可以看到有一条线挂下来，其个性笔性有踪迹可寻。而其风貌，每个时期，各不相同。因之可贵者老年变法。黄宾虹早、中年画，在70岁以前，无甚可观，及其晚年，当八九十岁时，突然一变，墨法神奇，开了面目，这点精神，我们应该学习。

A famous painter has the distinction of early, middle age, and old age. In every stage, though he can see a line hanging down, his personality can be trace. And their features, each period, are different. There is a change in the old age. Huang Binhong, early and middle-aged painting, before 70 years old, no considerable, and his later years, when eighty or ninety years old, suddenly changed, Mo magic, open the face, this spirit, we should learn.