在历史上, 从事绘画的人可能从未像今天这么多, 然而量的增长却并没有带来质的飞跃。休斯就曾指出过:佛罗伦萨从 1425年到 1500年的75年间只有近 7万人居住过, 却出现了包括达·芬奇、拉斐尔、米开朗基罗等等一系列大师,他们中很多人都是从同一个村庄中走出来的。而在美国一个绝大多数人都买得起颜料和画具的国度, 一个5年中就有多于7万的艺术硕士毕业的国度 ,却在过去半个世纪里没有出现一位艺术大师。 Historically, the number of people engaged in painting has never been as great as today, but the increase in volume has not brought about a qualitative leap. Hughes once pointed out that in Florence, only nearly 70,000 people lived in 75 years between 1425 and 1500, a series of masters including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, among others, Many people come from the same village. In the United States, where a vast majority of the population is able to afford paints and paints, a country with a master’s degree of art graduating more than 70,000 in five years has not seen an artist for the past half century.