Thoughts on art

Fragonard, Freud, Fautrier, great “F”s

In the face of the market, is art stronger or weaker?

Facsimile: the identical reproduction of a printing

Fade in-fade out is to video what blur is to photography

To have faith is to paint without a valuation, without recognition, without a dealer and without a collector

A fake does not easily survive a real expert’s examination

To be in a museum, in the Akoun and if possible dead: a possibility to be famous

There is a thin dividing line between the fantastic and the surreal

Painting is like a fantasy; you take advantage of it or you do not, but do not try to understand…

The big cats (fauves) have been set loose! The Fauvist school was born!

The real is part of art; feeling completes

The fellow student (Fr: condisciple) is above all a disciple

A festival rarely announces canvases from masters

Before figurative art was approaching reality; now it needs to approach photography

Figurative art: near to photography before it existed

Film: object of memory

The filter of an objective must give the nectar of a photograph

The fine arts: a pleonasm

A work can be finished but never complete

Five on me the fifth of August 2002

The fixative in art is like gel for hair styling

If I were a painter, my favourite colour would be that of flesh

The art forger should be punished in the same way as the bank note one

Drawing is not form; it is the manner of seeing form

The frame is to a painting what the carpeting is to a room

The French cancan has often greeted the end of a drawing by Toulouse-Lautrec

Freud would have made people paint under hypnosis; it would be interesting to repeat that experiment

Man only leaves behind him the fruit of his idleness. The artist does not

To be a futurist is to belong to the past