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


« You are always looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise nor help you, no one. »

« A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. »

« Allow your judgments their own silence, their undisturbed development, because, like all progress, it has to come from deeply within and cannot be forced or hastened. »

« Creation is like procreation. Everything is gestation and then giving birth. »

« Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lays before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. »

« Try to love the questions themselves without searching for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to understand them. Live your questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. »

« Don't be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law »

« And those who live the mystery falsely and badly lose it only for themselves and nevertheless pass it on like a sealed letter, without knowing it. »

« Love your solitude and try to accept the pain it causes to you. If your loved ones seem far away, its just a space growing inside of you. »

« Be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them, don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend… When you see them, love life in a form that is not your own. »

« Now I am giving you this copy because I know that it is important to rediscover a work of your own in someone else's handwriting. Read the poem as if it is unknown to you and you will feel in your innermost being how very much it is your own. »

« We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us. Nothing strong is easy and to love is difficult. »

« The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadness, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. »

« It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own (...) fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. »

« Just as people for a long time had a wrong idea about the sun's motion, they are even now wrong about the motion of what is to come. The future stands still, but we move in infinite space. »

« We must accept our life as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within. »

« How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that are transformed into princesses at the last moment? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. »

« Why do you want to exclude worry and suffering of your life? Because it's through them that we can transform ourselves. If sickness is needed to free yourself from exterior things, you have to help sickness because you grow through it. »

« You must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has to watch over himself. »


RAINER MARIA RILKE

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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.