Charles Picart Le Doux

“Each painter really loves only one painting, the one he would like to make.”

“We do not prepare for the future by destroying the past, but by continuing it.”

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

“There are times when, to appear original, it is not enough to be.”

“Honesty is the luxury of patients.”

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

“Painters know what painting really is, but few admit it.”

“Success is usually the exploitation of a weakness.”

“A revolutionary painting is not necessarily a revolting painting.”

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

“Life has only one excuse: the dream.”

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

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

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

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

“Originality at all costs has been as harmful to painting for thirty years as the Ecole des Beaux-Arts has always been.”

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

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

“It is easier to surprise than to remember.”

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