Chu Ge noted that he strongly encouraged Lee to use the traditional Chinese medium of ink, because ink by nature is best suited to express abstract ideas. Lee, having never before painted a traditional ink painting, has proved even more capable than most of transcending concrete forms to let the ink freely play out in a way that characterizes his most recent series of compositions, "Language of Ink."
楚戈則不忘提到，他是力促李錫奇用水墨這個傳統中國媒材作畫的始作俑者，因為水墨的性靈最能表達抽象意念，而從未畫過傳統水墨的李錫奇，也更能超脫具體形象，讓水墨自由揮灑，成就了李錫奇最近的系列作品《墨語》。