Charles Picart Le Doux Quotes

A definition of pictorial art: "Life united with style."

It is necessary in our time to brave the ridiculous to be honest.

Honesty is the luxury of patients.

The tragedy of modern life is not the harshness of the struggle, but its mediocrity.

To seduce most writers, painting must be literary, that is to say, on the borders of the bad.

A revolutionary painting is not necessarily a revolting painting.

Being honest in art is the surest way to be exceptional.

In a world where killers know their craft so well, it probably doesn't matter if artists ignore theirs.

Success is usually the exploitation of a weakness.

You have to be yourself; not everyone is a Michelangelo or a Mignard.

Some want painting to "amuse" them; it was not to improvise fairground attractions that X-rays were discovered.

How is it that painting the only art form that any ignorant person allows himself to judge?

Painting doesn't have to be crazy to be good.

Our era has believed that talent is about finding new ways of expression; we take appearance for reality.

Life has only one excuse: the dream.