How do you feel about your paintings being exposed to this brilliant museum?
… compared to Picasso…
…Picasso of the 25th century?
…next to Rembrandt, Monet, Malet…
J’ai cru comprendre qu’elle était la source d’inspiration dans beaucoup d’œuvres ?
-- If I understood correctly, she was the source of inspiration in many of your works?
Have you always looked for fame?

There is a wealth of humbug in this life. But the multitudinous little humbugs have been classified by Chinese Buddhists under two big humbugs: fame and wealth. Many cultured persons were able to escape the lure of wealth, but only the very greatest could escape the lure of fame. From my own observation of life, the Buddhist classification of life’s humbugs is not complete, and the great humbugs of life are three, instead of two: fame, wealth and power. There is a convenient American word which combines these three humbugs into the one great humbug: success. But many wise men know that the desires for success, fame and wealth are euphemistic names for the fears of failure, poverty and obscurity and that these fears are dominating our lives. There are many people who have already attained both fame and wealth, but…

[Text:
1) First part by Maria Gkotzampougiouki, Célian Girost
2) Second part: excerpt from Lin Yutang’s book The Importance of Living (1998).]