Lee also benefited greatly from the guidance of Yen Shui-lung, a veteran painter who taught industrial design. Yen invited artists in from overseas to broaden his students 'horizons, and he often took his students to local temples and aboriginal villages to see Taiwan's arts firsthand.
除了吳讓農，教授工藝設計的台灣老畫家顏水龍，不僅請來國外的藝術家拓展學生視野，也經常帶著學生到地方寺廟或原住民部落去接觸本土藝術。