学者易中天认为,“艺术的本质也是艺术学的基本问题,舍此同样没有理论形态的、严格意义上的艺术学可言。任何真正的科学或严密的学科,都必须有自己的第一原理。对于美学而言,这个‘第一原理’就是关于美的本质的 Yi Zhongtian, a scholar, believes that “the essence of art is also the basic problem of art study, and there is no theoretical form in this sense, and the art of art in the strict sense can be said.” Any true science or rigorous discipline must have its own first principles. For aesthetics, this ’first principle’ is about the essence of beauty