"...Neither classical nor modernist, David Palterer is for this reason authentically modern in our eyes. He is not afraid to render tangible the contradictions inhabiting and pervading him; he does not hesitate to manifest without shame his fears and tremors. He sacrifices (and the sacrifice is not negligible) the reassuring idea of a stylistic coherence leading to the plastic triumph of form in order to embark on a restless and disquieting quest of the fundamentals and the legitimacy of this activity which oscilates between practical ends and phantasmatic aims". (G.G. Lemaire).