Jean-Michel Lartigaud, painter, France

It’s paintbrushes, twigs, a fork, knives, fingers, two eyes.

It’s oil, plaster, stone, dust, gold, milk, sand.

It’s canvas, wood, walls, arches, a stomach, islands, left-over paper.

It’s necessary, useful, indispensable, inescapable, shameful, dirty (with some turpentine around it).

It’s difficult, precise, funny, bizarre, less dangerous than…, more serious than…

It’s blunt, heavy, banal, rare, expensive, ugly, pretty, bright, whatever.

It’s the light, the rest of the world, a reed, an idea, a smell, the moment, you.

Painting !