张若愚自述

　　古希腊先哲苏格拉底曾就“什么是美”与好友希皮阿斯进行激烈辩论而无果。惶惶中我感觉到美始终隐藏于事物背后并推动事物呈现出美的特殊性（美的形式）。人们可以创造出美的事物却永远无法摆脱自身局限从形形色色的特殊性中总结和归纳关于美的普遍意义。在美面前我们是渺小的，就像人们需要匍匐于泥土之上感受大地的辽阔。
　　工具理性给人们带来的是对感官经验的不信任。艺术的审美方式当中，以理性的方式在形式中寻找观念，形式失去意义；以文字诠释艺术，观看则失去意义。艺术经历了无数美学意义的革命之后，艺术家们仍然没有放弃在形式中而不是在概念中探寻生命的终极价值。
　　好的艺术作品往往体现出其艺术语言的独特本质，而雕塑艺术的本质就是形体和光影。脱离形体与光影，雕塑则失去意义。这已成为我的艺术理念并呈现于我的作品之中。我不会将自己的艺术冠名为某某主义或流派，或许观者能从这些作品中体会到的是古典、唯美或是别的什么。总之这些超然于现实或带有几分灵异的艺术形象建构着我的全部，这是一种意识处于现实与幻想的交界状态，用形体与光影言说自我的过程。我相信，造型艺术与其它艺术种类一样呈现出螺旋上升式发展态势。其每次飞跃往往伴随着失去本体语言的危险却又不自觉地回顾传统，然后在新的起点上焕发出活力。这上升的动力则是人类对自身的反省以及文明的不断推进。
　　我希望自己成为那不多的艺术与真理的朝圣者，用自己的生命换取美的更多感受，将它们物化于那坚硬不朽的形式和材质中，以求爱与生命之永恒。

　　若愚 2010/9/24

　　The ancient Greek sage Socrates debated contested intense with his friend Xipi Aspen on “what is beautiful " and no fruit. In panic, I feel that The beautiful things has always hide behind things and promote things that show the particularity. People can create things of beauty but you will never get rid of the universal significance of its own limitations from all kinds of particularity. Before the Beauty we are small, just like people need to crawl in the soil above the feelings of the vast earth.
　　Instrumental rationality to people is do not trust the sensory experience. Which the art of aesthetic way, In form, we looking for ideas in a rational way. Form lost its meaning; texts explain the arts, watch lost its meaning. Art has gone through numerous aesthetic significance of the revolution, the artists have still not given up the ultimate value in the form, not explore of life in the concept.
　　The good works of art often reflects the unique nature of their artistic language, the essence of sculpture art form and lighting. Without light and shade, A sculpture lost its meaning. It has become my artistic tenie and showing my works. I do not name my works by a doctrine or a genre, perhaps viewer can to appreciate the classical aesthetic or whatever it is from these works. In short these artistic images detached from reality, or a sort of supernatural construct my all, this is a state between reality with fantas, speaking the process of myself in shape and shadow. I believe that the develop of plastic arts and other kinds of arts, like a spiral development trend. Each leap is often accompanied by the risk of loss of its language, but do not consciously recall tradition, glow with vitality and a new starting point. This increase in power is the continuous progress of mankind for their self-examination and civilization.
　　I just like a pilgrims of art and truth, to exchange for more experience in my life, they materialized in hard and immortal forms and materials, for courtship and life eternal.