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We must constantly respect this people by remaining at their level and evolve with them. We must find this Algerian pictorial personality. I’m looking for myself. I didn’t find it.

— M'hamed Issiakhem

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I am always sensitive to all those who struggle to survive in difficult conditions.

If the painter does not live, does not explain the drama of his society, he is not an artist.

Painting must stop being the monopoly of a small class that can afford to buy paintings.

I am too sensitive to the human condition to suddenly turn my back on this figure.

Any stagnant art is a retrograde art. Any art that wants to be ahead of the people is a pretentious art, dishonest.

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