Taiwan's painters were fortunate not to carry the burden of tradition, yet this fact meant a relative lack of a sense of the times among the first generation of painters, when compared to their contemporaries in literature.
沒有傳統包袱是台灣畫家的幸福，然而這也使得台灣前輩畫家與當時台灣的文學比起來，明顯地缺乏時代感。