萧殷文艺思想涉及问题很广,其中对文学的理想精神和情感美学的见解在当下仍具有重要的现实意义。他提出,文学应该是生活加情感加意义;一个伟大的作家总是怀着比生活更高的理想,直面现实而为将来写作;文学应以真情为基础,以美情为关键;美情既是文学对情感内涵的美化,也是文学对情感形式的美化。 Xiao Yin literature and art thinking involves a wide range of issues, of which the ideal spirit of literature and emotional aesthetics still have important practical significance in the moment. He proposed that literature should be life plus emotion plus meaning. A great writer always possesses a higher ideal than life to face the reality and write for the future. Literature should be based on truth and beauty is the key. The beautification of the emotional connotation of literature is also the aesthetic of the emotional form of the literature.