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Georges Badin and Michel Butor, The Catalonian Garden, 2000

Georges Badin and Michel Butor, The Catalonian Garden, 2000

The world is a book whose every step opens a page. -Alphonse de Lamartine

This voice you have at your side without interrupting it, as if carrying effluvia that do not join, and every glance becomes a phrase or several. Voices, When Michel Butor and I make books – together, letter from Georges Badin, 2007

 

To write, I listen to the artists’ images.

Michel Butor

Michel-Ange, 1475-1564

The novelty is in the mind that creates, not in the nature that is painted.

Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863

It took me a long time to understand my water lilies… I cultivated them without thinking of painting them… A landscape does not become part of you in one day… And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took my palette. Since then, I have hardly had any other model.

You have to catch the light and throw it directly onto the canvas.

What I will do here will at least have the merit of resembling no one else, because it will be the impression of what I will have felt, myself alone.

Claude Monet, 1840-1926