Still life?

"An authentic still life is born the day a painter makes the fundamental decision to choose as a subject and to organize a group of objects into a plastic entity. That, depending on the time and the environment in which he works, he charges them with all sorts of spiritual allusions, does not change his profound artistic purpose: that of imposing on us his poetic emotion in front of the beauty he has encountered in these objects and their assembly. »

- Charles Sterling, 1952.