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"Some want painting to "amuse" them; it was not to improvise fairground attractions that X-rays were discovered."
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Charles Picart Le Doux
Charles Picart Le Doux
Charles Picart Le Doux
author1902–1982
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Charles Alexandre Picart Le Doux was a French painter, engraver, book illustrator, poet and author. He was part of the artistic milieu of Montmartre in the years before World War I, and active in the circle of Jules Romains and the Abbaye de Créteil group of artists and writers. A celebration of his work, the book Picart Le Doux, was published in 1945, and in 1950 he was made a Chevalier of the Le
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"Painting doesnt have to be crazy to be good."
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"It is easier to surprise than to remember."
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"Being honest in art is the surest way to be exceptional."
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"A definition of pictorial art: "Life united with style."
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"Originality at all costs has been as harmful to painting for thirty years as the Ecole des Beaux-Arts has always been."
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"You have to be yourself; not everyone is a Michelangelo or a Mignard."
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"To seduce most writers, painting must be literary, that is to say, on the borders of the bad."
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"In a world where killers know their craft so well, it probably doesnt matter if artists ignore theirs."
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"It is necessary in our time to brave the ridiculous to be honest."
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"Life has only one excuse: the dream."
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"A revolutionary painting is not necessarily a revolting painting."
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