Looking back on those years, Li feels that the material struggle on behalf of his family was not as hard to bear as the spiritual struggle: "For an artist, to live in a cultural vacuum where no one looks at his paintings, criticizes them, displays them, or buys them takes away all one's spiritual drive."
「那時候的確是苦，但苦的不是物質生活的匱乏。」李轂摩說：「對一個藝術工作者而言，沒有好的文化環境，大家都不看畫、不評畫、不買畫，得不到精神上的鼓舞與回饋，那種沒有知音的寂寞，才是最苦的。」