Apart from being an artist and a teacher, Li was a mentor of the art movement, a legislator, and in his later years he devoted himself to the temple reconstruction.
伋自鄉土民情的創作泉源，無疑豐富了李梅樹寫實藝術的內涵，也使他卓然特出於老一輩省籍畫家中。三峽祖師廟是美術啟蒙老師