[·]. Particularly fascinating are the artists whose reflection bears on the elements themselves of pictorial representation, either abstract or figurative. Patrice Vermeille chose to place himself where the divers pictorial codes, from the Neo-Classical to the Suprematism, cease being in opposition .At the same time in his work resurfaces the immemorial certitude that painting is a reflection of the cosmos. And reciprocally. [·]
   José Pierre 1991
   (Introduction à la peinture, Somogy).