"For a Taiwanese to be chosen to exhibit there was simply extraordinary in the eyes of the Japanese," the elderly artist Li Shih-ch'iao has explained.
老畫家李石樵就曾經說過：「台灣人能入選帝展，在日本人看來簡直是異乎尋常的事。」因此，對二○年代前輩美術家而言，一旦拚入帝展，幾乎就是他們一生最為樂道的光采事蹟。而陳進挾著連續入選的萬丈氣燄，足教當時的男畫家們也瞠目結舌。