During this period, he likes Maurice de Vlaminck for his tormented
skies; Bernard Buffet for his rigid lines; George Dumesnil de Latour for
his purity and Salvador Dalì for his imagination. Even if he paints a
few small gouaches at this time, as sincere as they were clumsy; he is
still a very long way from visualising a path of creation.
"Nothing
will be rejected, expelled. Everything will take part in the meeting,
the osmosis. I think the edification of my painting rests on a yes! A
yes, which will be the taking in consideration the acknowledgement of
what is. You cannot deny anything about existence without mutilating
yourself. Painting is for me the phenomenal good fortune of awareness.
Painting not only what I am, but also all of what I am. That is my
ambition and my research, which somewhere agrees with yours” - Michel Ogier