...In parallel with the avant-garde coteries whose members yield to self-destruction or devour one another, other painters - the silent ones - let their art quietly reach maturity, continuously reassessing the whys and wherefores of artistic creation and remaining aloof from all "systematics". Pierre Loeb is one of these "others", indifferent to the prevailing dictates of fashion or to whatever passing show is "in". He steadfastly pursues his single purpose, that of expressing an emotion by transcending it. Thus, via the device of the subject as a pretext, he transmits the profound sense of man's reality, and thereby also puts himself in tune with the universe. Not does van Gogh's Starry Night contain any meaning other than that...

Marcel SALINAS New-York, Janvier 1988