陈洪绶晚年为其好友林仲清画《溪山清夏图》并作一长题,被后人誉为其主要画论。题中,陈洪绶写道:“今人不师古人,恃数句举业餖丁或细小浮名,便挥笔作画,笔墨不暇责也,形似亦不可比拟,哀哉!欲扬微名供人指点,又讥评彼老成人,此老莲最不满于名流者也。然今人作家,学宋者失之匠,何也?不带唐流也。学元者失之野,不溯宋源也。” In his later years, Chen Hongshuo was his longtime friend, Lin Zhongqing, who painted the “Ching Shan Qing Xia Figure” and made a long question, which was later hailed as his main painting theory. In the title, Chen Hongshun wrote: “Nowadays, if you are not an ancients, count on a few words or use small floating names to paint brushstrokes. Pointing, but also ridiculed his older adults, the most dissatisfied with Laolian celebrities are also most people now writers, learning Song lost the craftsman, why not? Source too. ”