[Bernard Buffet's art possesses a] human and inhuman aspect... an intransigence that can be both selfish and generous at the same time.

Cited by Dominique Gagneux in "Bernard Buffet: The Oxymoron, or the Paradoxes of a Painter", in Fabrice Hergott & Dominique Gagneux (eds.), Bernard Buffet: Rétrospective, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Paris Musées (2016), p. 15. ISBN 978-2-7596-0331-2