Paul Martel - Artist Info

About Paul Martel

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    The following, submitted November 2005, is from Maclovia Martel, gran-daughter of the artist.

    "Has it ever occurred to you that a photograph is the unrealest of things? The camera sees its subject so much faster than the eye can see it - that the result is something that you never have seen. Then there are "the chemists" who want to paint the flesh of the female so you could eat it with a spoon. Of course you can't do it. You don't eat paint with a spoon. You can't paint light. You can't paint odor. You can't paint touch. You can just paint paint."


    - Paul Jean Martel, Philadelphia Record, 1943


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