One cannot go so far as to say that the history of Taiwanese art would be fractured without the stories of these old painters, whose lives and activities were not centered around Taiwan. Yet if they were not known to the public, it would be a loss nonetheless.
對於台灣美術史而言，少了這些生命活動重心不在台灣的老畫家，或許不致使美術史斷裂，然而終究是一個遺憾。