LIFE AS AN ARTIST - The sculptures of Michel BASSOMPIERRE (Interview)

I may have been born with a pencil in my hand. I wasn't a musician, I wasn't an accountant or anything. I was a sculptor. I didn't only represent animals. I also represented great scenes with either a lot of animals or a lot of characters. It's the materialization of a dream, in the end. The dream of giving life to something you have in your head. I don't try to represent a bear as it is, with its character. Whatever the animal, I do the whole thing. It's really at the end that, by bringing the details on the eyes, on the muzzle, all that, that, I don't know why, it comes to life. An artist or someone who thinks he's an artist, it's not him talking about his work, it's the work that makes the artist, it's not the artist who makes the work. At the end of a life, you can consider, in front of the extent of the work, that an individual may have been an artist, and in any case, he's going to leave a work. It's the work that has the publicity of the artist, and not the artist who has the publicity of his work.