The painter said he often had to jump up and down on the floor to get some quiet.

Some French painters have said they will not show here.

"It has happened many times for me," the painter said in an interview after the morning's events.

Several painters said the relevance to their jobs had yet to become clear.

The painter said he had thought of escaping to the West for a long time.

Whatever the painter says, she's not a person here - she represents something else in his life.

"He had a street edge about him," the painter said.

All this, as the painter had said, was ordinary enough.

"The story is simply this," said the painter after some time.

First, you must, as a painter would say, make your palette.