Buddhist historian Chiang Tsan-sheng, who met Li only once, remembers him as being keen, eloquent, and handsome. "He was the kind of person whom you would meet for the first time and feel like you had known forever. You could converse with him for hours. After you had parted from him, you would continue to be deeply impressed with his great charisma."
生平只見過李元松一面的佛教史學者江燦騰便回憶，李元松既敏銳又雄辯，且外貌俊秀瀟灑，「是屬於那種初識時，便可與他一見如故地盡興長談，而別離後，則又令人不禁懷念起他的魅力型特殊人物。」