Charles Cottet, French, (1863–1925), was a painter and printmaker. He was regarded in
his lifetime as one of the most original artists of his generation and his body of work
retains that reputation today.
He is best known for his forceful and firmly designed scenes of life on the Brittany
coast and the ordinary lives of the Breton people. His most impressive works were often
somber, gloomy and severe in his choice of subject matter and tonal intensity.
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America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter, or musician.
Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, (1945).