The painter Kuo Hsueh-hu has described the feeling of being chosen to exhibit there as "like ascending into Heaven." And Chen Chin, even though the exhibition was considered unfair at first toward native Taiwanese, had her paintings selected year after year, beginning when she was a 20-year-old student, while at 27 she was even chosen to serve as a judge.
畫家郭雪湖形容當年入選台展的心情「好像從地球直升天堂」；而陳進，即使在被認為對台籍畫家有欠公允的初期台展中，就以廿歲的學生身分脫穎而出，此後更是連連特選。