《林泉高致》彙集了郭熙獨到的藝術見解，由其子郭思輯錄編集而成，是一部較系統、完整地探討山水畫創作的專著。郭熙曾有過學習道家之學的經歷，從《林泉高致》一書的主旨思想來看，這可能對其藝術創作和藝術理論的形成都產生了重要的影響。因為該書中無論是對藝術家創作的精神狀態的認知，還是對樸素的水墨觀以及追求天人合一的藝術之境等方面都處處可見老莊哲思之跡。也正由於該書充滿了老莊思想的哲思之辯，使它在中國美學與藝術理論發展史上具有獨特地位，並對後世藝術創作與藝術實踐的發展產生了重要影響。

Lin Quan Gao Zhi, written by Guo Xi and compiled by his son Guo Si, is an artistic theory book intends to discuss systematically and completely the Landscape painting. Guo Xi used to learn from Taoism, which possibly had exerted substantial influence on artistic creation and artistic theory with reference to Lin Quan Gao Zhi. We could find the trace of philosophy of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi in many places in this book, for instance, its view about spirits of artists and ink painting, its pursuit of harmony between man and nature. Because of its reference to the philosophy of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, this book is like a monument in the history of Chinese artistic theory and affected the later Chinese artists practically.