Gu Kaizhi was knowledgeable and talented at that time, but he gained fame and fortune. He achieved the highest artistic achievement with his philosophical thoughts of "inclusiveness" and "preserving our sanity". It is mentioned in Shi Shuo Xin Yu that Gu Kaizhi eats sugarcane differently from ordinary people. Everyone starts from the sweetest and throws it away when it is not sweet, but he starts from the bottom, and the more he eats, the sweeter he is, which also shows his great wisdom. People combined Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei, Zhang Sengyou and Gu Kaizhi into "Four Masters of the Six Dynasties". Their works are intended to be vivid, and they advocate that painting should show the mental state and personality characteristics of characters. His idea of "vivid with form" plays a vital role in the development of China's traditional calligraphy and painting.
Although Gu Kaizhi's official position was not very high, he was still very popular at that time because of his achievements in painting and literature. At that time, people said that Gu Kaizhi had three unique skills, namely infatuation, painting and talent. Among them, idiot refers to Gu Kaizhi's frankness, humor and a little sense of dementia. Painting refers to his accomplishments in painting, thus affirming his superb painting skills. Wen definitely means that he is knowledgeable, good at writing poems and fu, and proficient in calligraphy.
There are not many literary works in Gu Kaizhi's world, but there are two books that can reflect his literary achievements. He has many paintings, but many of them have been lost. Gu Kaizhi's paintings have a wide range of subjects, including not only figure paintings and secular stories, but also birds and beasts and landscape paintings.