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1881–1959
Charles Picart Le Doux (July 12, 1881—September 11, 1959) 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.
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In a world where killers know their craft so well, it probably doesn't matter if artists ignore theirs.
The tragedy of modern life is not the harshness of the struggle, but its mediocrity.
Originality at all costs has been as harmful to painting for thirty years as the Ecole des Beaux-Arts has always been.
It is necessary in our time to brave the ridiculous to be honest.
A definition of pictorial art: "Life united with style."
Success is usually the exploitation of a weakness.
Painting doesn't have to be crazy to be good.
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?
We do not prepare for the future by destroying the past, but by continuing it.
Each painter really loves only one painting, the one he would like to make.
A revolutionary painting is not necessarily a revolting painting.
There are times when, to appear original, it is not enough to be.
Being honest in art is the surest way to be exceptional.
Painters know what painting really is, but few admit it.
It is easier to surprise than to remember.
You have to be yourself; not everyone is a Michelangelo or a Mignard.
Our era has believed that talent is about finding new ways of expression; we take appearance for reality.
Some want painting to "amuse" them; it was not to improvise fairground attractions that X-rays were discovered.
Life has only one excuse: the dream.
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