艺术在人类文明发展中的一个重要表现是——图像先于观念。无数史实证明:作为神经系统的一种功能,意象发生于语言获得之前。视觉艺术,尤其是绘画艺术,其由人类制作于外在事物之上的形象表明:如果把人类历史的漫长时期比作心理学上称之为“继发过程”的话,那么,相对其“原发过程”——宇宙而言,即不过是其中的一小部分。站在宇宙的“原发过程”高度去俯视我们人类的“继发过程”时,人们发现,作为宇宙造物的一份子一人的创造性竟是 An important manifestation of art in the development of human civilization is that the image precedes the concept. Numerous historical facts prove that as a function of the nervous system, the image occurs before the language is obtained. The visual arts, especially the art of painting, whose images are made by human beings on external things show that if the long period of human history is likened to what psychology calls “secondary processes,” then the relative “Primary process ” - the universe is only a small part of it. Standing on the “primary process” of the universe and looking down on the “secondary process” of our humanity, one finds that the creativity of one person as a creator of the universe was actually