An editor at an American ceramics magazine opines that even though Lee works in the abstract expressionist style of the West, his work is nevertheless informed by a Chinese spirit and demonstrates a deeply Zen-oriented outlook on life.
美國陶藝雜誌主編顧問拉諾・柯奇塔認為，儘管李茂宗在造型上採取西方抽象表現主義，但內在卻是中國的精神與魂魄，饒富一種禪學哲思。