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Charles Picart Le Doux
21 quotes
“Some want painting to "amuse" them; it was not to improvise fairground attractions that X-rays were discovered.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Painting doesn't have to be crazy to be good.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is easier to surprise than to remember.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being honest in art is the surest way to be exceptional.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A definition of pictorial art: "Life united with style.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Originality at all costs has been as harmful to painting for thirty years as the Ecole des Beaux-Arts has always been.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to be yourself; not everyone is a Michelangelo or a Mignard.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How is it that painting the only art form that any ignorant person allows himself to judge?”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To seduce most writers, painting must be literary, that is to say, on the borders of the bad.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a world where killers know their craft so well, it probably doesn't matter if artists ignore theirs.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life has only one excuse: the dream.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is necessary in our time to brave the ridiculous to be honest.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A revolutionary painting is not necessarily a revolting painting.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success is usually the exploitation of a weakness.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Painters know what painting really is, but few admit it.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our era has believed that talent is about finding new ways of expression; we take appearance for reality.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Honesty is the luxury of patients.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are times when, to appear original, it is not enough to be.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tragedy of modern life is not the harshness of the struggle, but its mediocrity.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not prepare for the future by destroying the past, but by continuing it.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each painter really loves only one painting, the one he would like to make.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source