"By architecture, I want to do the wind dancing, the earth and the sky stiring !" - TADAO ANDO"Ideas don'y belond to anyone, they are in the mood of time" - PAUL ARDEN"I desire a piece of me still unknown" - PAUL GAUGUIN"The most important can't be seen by eyes" - SAINT EXUPERY"I don't seek, I find" - PABLO PICASSO"A painter is a collector who makes paintings that he likes to see at other people's place" - PABLO PICASSO"The less you desire, the more you are" - PRECEPTE ZEN"There are no difficult tasks that can't be split into small easy ones" - ADDAGE BOUDHISTE"Art is not shape but shaping" - PAUL KLEE"A building lives thanks its beauty, because it seduces, moves and inspires people." - HERZOG & DE MEURON"Being an artist is not counting" - RAINER MARIA RILKE"When I am out of blue, I use red!" - PABLO PICASSO"Money is a good servant but a bad master" - ALEXANDRE DUMAS"I have painted Greek temples all my life without knowing it" - MARK ROTHKO"For me, space is ambiguous like air and light which pour between two things." - TOYO ITO"Mona Lisa smiles because all who have drawn her a moustache have died" - ANDRE MALRAUX"The logical reasoning must run into the sense approach in order to make apparent the architecture" - TADAO ANDO"The agility of a building goes hand in hand with the sincerity of a purpose." - RENZO PIANO"When I look at a scenery, nothing can stop me from looking at its faults" - OSCAR WILDE"Beauty is always weird" - CHARLES BAUDELAIRE"There is no personal art without personal discipline" - PIERRE REVERDY"Despite its physical expression, I consider architecture as mental activity." - DANIEL LIBESKIND"One must reintroduce dream and sacred in the modern city." - MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS"Not to succeed is not a failure, it's training" - ADDAGE TIBETAIN"Work is food for noble souls" - SENEQUE"Art that is not in the present will never be" - PABLO PICASSO"I use differently materials and techniques in use for ages." - SHIGERU BAN"A piece of art is a cry in the desert" - FRANCOIS MAURIAC"Architecture is everywhere, in a curb of pavement, in a territory abandoned by town planning" - PATRICK BOUCHAIN"Art starts where nature stops" - OSCAR WILDE"I don't have to deform, I start shapeless and I shape" - GEORGE BRAQUE"Changes don't modify the sea itself" - VINCENT VAN GOGH"I refuse to see the finished product in order to only see what it's made of" - PHILIPPE STARCK"Lack and shortcomings create" - PAUL VALERY"I have changed the perception of visible with the vision of real" - PHILIPPE STARCK"Art is not power but word of comfort" - THOMAS MANN"Today is the first day of the rest of my life" - ADDAGE OCCIDENTAL"Landscape teaches us how to build our houses. In nature, the plant's shape depends to the place it grows." - GLENN MERCUTT"The artist is a constant player whose masterpiece is the game won" - ANDRE MALRAUX"Above reason, there is conscience" - VICTOR HUGO"True mastery is the accomplishment of simplicity" - PRECEPTE ZEN"A drawing is a rough draft of the awakening mind" - GEORGES ROUAULT"The architect has to choose a disadvantage and to assume the responsability." - COOP HIMMELB(L)AU"The beauty of an object depends to the way it catches the light" - ANDREE PUTMAN"Every day, I dim the value of intelligence" - MARCEL PROUST"One needs to feel, not to know" - STENDHAL"The set should highlight a person and allow him to draw the best from inside" - JACQUES GARCIA"To become universal, first become intimate !" - RODIN"Pain hurts but it's not that bad" - ALICE HAUTBOUT"You should be satisfied discovering and not explaining" - GEORGES BRAQUE"A way to act is to be a dreamer" - PHILIPPE STARCK"For an artist, pride is less a character fault than a necessary condition of creation" - GAETAN PICON"He who knows internal peace is neither upset by failure nor carried away by success" - MATTHIEU RICCARD"Art doesn't reproduce what's visible but makes visible" - PAUL KLEE"Less is more»" - PRECEPTE DU BAHAUS




Self-Portrait

I have a graphic designer degree (E.S.A.G-Penninghen school). My first creations were signed « Atelier Mise en Toile ».
I am maried with 2 children and I owe a lot to my wife.
Today, my main interests are : architecture, decoration, doing some D.I.Y. and Japan.





The Marcel Proust interview-questionnaire (French writer)


  • my first character trait : imaginative
  • a man's quality I desire most : heart's nobility
  • a woman's quality I desire most : heart's nobility
  • what I like the most about my friends : wit and simplicity
  • my major fault : Pride, necessary sometimes
  • my hobby : to gaze at or to create
  • my sweetest dream : my wife, my two kids, to be recognized and to travel
  • my most terrible misfortune : to loose my good qualities, to do anything for money
  • what I would love to be : in peace with myself
  • the country I would like to live in : Japan
  • my favorite colour : blue
  • my favorite flower : orchid
  • my favorite bird : humming bird
  • my favorite writers : Maupassant, Camus, Rilke
  • my favorite poets : Prévert, Thierry Le Luron, Sylvie Joly, Spielberg
  • my favorite fiction heroes : Ben Hurr, Birdy, Billy Eliot, Will Hunting
  • my favorite fiction heroines : Cinderella, Rose in the film "Titanic"
  • my favorite composers : Mozart, Satie, Björk
  • my favorite painters : Poliakoff, Rothko, Modigliani, Utamaro
  • my heroes in real life : Freud, the Dalaï lama, my parents-in-law, my aunt Cécile
  • what I hate the most : greed, obscurantism, dishonesty
  • a nature's gift I would love to have : be able to fly
  • how would I like to die : in peace with myself, loved and conscious
  • today' state of mind : Sunday January 9th 2006, sad but confident
  • mistakes I easy forgive : spelling mystackes or lack of taste

  • my favorite motto: « God helps him who helps himself »


  • my favorite book (not a question asked by Proust) : letter to a young poet by Rainer Maria
(Click on the book to read some lines)

Appropriations - Legal mentions

Luc Hautbout is the contemporary figurative artist specialized in the making of etchings, inviting you to visit the virtual painting gallery and the art gallery in Avignon.