He believes in Buddhism and likes mountains and rivers. Most of his poems are vivid and profound with the theme of landscape and pastoral. In his later years, he lived in seclusion in Wangchuan, Lantian County, and his poems mostly reflected seclusion and talked about Zen and Buddhism.
Wang Wei is proficient in music, calligraphy and art. He is good at painting "plain" scenery and likes to paint mountains and rivers with "broken ink". His painting "Wangchuan Villa" is gloomy in the valley, full of clouds and water, and vigorous in brushwork. Su Shi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, praised him as "a poem with charm and pictures; Look at the picture. There are poems in it. "
Wang Wei has a very important position in the history of painting, and his creative thought of "being talented without clothes" has a great influence on later literati painting. Dong Qichang, a great calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, praised him as the ancestor of landscape painting "Nanzong" and said that "literati painting began in Wang Youcheng". In other words, Wang Wei played an important role in the formation and development of literati painting.