Frederic BLAIMONT: "I am no longer a child and no longer know how (alas!) to draw like him. What I seek in my work as a painter is this same truth, this same sincerity but with the tools that are mine...   The truth, I find it in observation. I am curious about my contemporaries, people in their everyday life. I like to look at their attitudes without complacency; I like their faults Their imperfections are sympathetic to me, their authenticity makes them endearing, moving, endearing, close to us...

The characters I paint, you have probably already met them. You know them, their banality makes them universal..."