For me, a painting, like a person who chose you or that you have chosen, should be a series of reflections that one never tires of frequenting and that continually reveals to you some of its secrets.

I think that J.W. Hanoteau is capable of renouncing all the creature comforts in order to be able to continue to endlessly look at nature and to incessantly paint it from a constantly renewed perspective.

He does not try to be charming, and by that I mean that he enchants his public in the way that fairies or magicians cast their spells.