Artist Chiang Hsun, author of a book on Liu Chin-tang, says that his unique style is no less than "the single most successful example in recent Chinese art of the merging of Eastern and Western aesthetics."
著有劉錦堂專書的美術家蔣勳就表示，劉錦堂獨特的個人風格，無異是「中國近代美術中，融合東西美學成就最高的一例。」