After the homecoming exhibition of these two artists 'works, local art workers expressed their regret that Liu Chin-tang did not live long enough to return to his homeland, and that Ho Te-lai's paintings were not exhibited fifteen years earlier. Who knows the influence this might have had on the creative concepts of the time, or even on the modern art of today?
這也是在兩位畫家畫作回鄉展出後，不少美術工作者都十分惋惜道：要是劉錦堂活久一些，來得及回到故鄉台灣；要是何德來的畫早十五年在台灣展出，對當時的美術創作觀念，甚或對今天的現代藝術，都不知會產生多大的影響。