"The collection that I know best and about which it is most difficult for me to speak is obviously my own. It is elusive. I have owned, I would say, thousands of objects. (…) To me, collecting is both indispensable and perfectly useless."

“Intensely, without hiding behind the primacy of great Art with a very capital A, and without false modesty, Pierre Le-Tan claimed his work as a “dessinateur”, a magnificent word, which refers as much to Plutarch as to the golden age of magazines (…)”

“Books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't consider them as a collection. They to me simply an indispensable store of knowledge that a computer will never replace. “

“Everything, or almost everything, attracts me, from archaeology to Islamic art, passing through Asian art and drawings from all periods. Japanese art, which had taken such an important place for me during my childhood, has regained some ground.”

"Pierre loved fragments: 16th century Oushak carpets, Roman bas-reliefs, tiles, vases, sculptures…Free, idle, freed from the task that fell to them when they were part of a whole, they were just themselves, magnificent layabouts. Together we could have founded a secret society, the secret society of the good-for-nothing fragments."