The common art dealers have pushed the caricature to the extreme: small formats, little figures, childlike flowers and green meadows... These are paintings for kitchens or children's bedrooms... Sweet paintings for chambermaids... There should be other words than "Naïve"... "Marginal," perhaps. As long as it's a matter of childishness and defenseless figures, this "naïve" painting is aptly named, and what's more, it's deceitful. One wonders what the upstarts of business see in it: no doubt what they expect from the people: a kind of accessible, uncomplicated vitality, a political vacuum... What they call "Authenticity"... which they also find in fine spirits and gourmet restaurants...