The great challenge for the artist
is to transcribe what he feels.
He cannot say it by copying—
he has to embody it.
An enormous desire,
a thirst, and inner need,
the power to draw,
to seek to express life.
Never
forget
the overall
rhythm.
You must draw
like you sculpt,
engaging your model
with the light.
Light,
Light!
Expression!
Freedom!
Audacity!
What struck me
when I saw his sculptures,
these figures of men,
women, standing, sitting,
sometimes leaning one way or the other,
is that this modeler has built them
around a vertical axis
that he clearly
always keeps in mind.
Yves Bonnefoy
The eyes carrying flames,
the rough eyebrows raised
to the devil toward the temples,
the beard glistening,
and the language animated,
Charles Auffret does nothing
if not ardently.
CFM, #41, 1973
I’ve never felt so much tension,
so much emotion
emanating from someone;
his gaze seems to penetrate
to the very depths
of the beings and things
that surround him.
Richard Peduzzi
Through his appetite for truth,
his taste for free and full forms,
and even his choice
of themes,
he is directly connected
to the school of modern sculpture
that comes out of Degas
and Despiau.
Patrice Dubois