Robert Harcus
"When we were still learning to draw in art schools, we used to hear over and over again that nothing was more difficult than horses and those who succeeded in it ran a great risk of staying captive to this inaccessibe and proud know how Robert Harcus took great care not to: we can't imagine him doing a protrait of a horse, it would be more as a landscape painter that he paints horses. I mean that it's his love of nature that dictates his painting to him, it's in that way that he paints the simplest things as well as the most difficult subject with the same attentive and passionate humility. It's quite obvious that his expertise and skill are exceptional and it must be said extremely rare to-day, but they are completely natural to him and he makes use of them with the most perfect simplicity. As a painter, Robert Harcus is one of those beings of light who remain gladly in the shadows, there he develops that pure world vision which gives rise to the brilliant aptness of his painting."
Hugues Claude Pissaro (grandson of the great French impressionist Camille)