1999-Constanze Alt, journalist,at the "Ost Thüringische Zeitung" ("Faust engravings" in Jena, Germany) : ... That no actors be needed for a "Faust" staging à la Henri Landier, the french Master of graphical arts demonstrate it in his recent exhibition presented in Jena museum... In first part of the tragedy, the represented personages seem to tell themselves the story of Faust and Margaret...

1998-André Giovanni, philosopher/writer ("Darkness engravings") : ...Three centuries after Rembrandt, it is not in Holland... that his inspired continuator is to be searched for... it is in Montmartre on the slopes which go round Lepic street, that Henri Landier pursues his feverish and secret work...
Landier's art joins the one of Breughel to the strong, structured rythmus... 

1997-Hélène Esquier, art critic ("Brittany cliffs") : ...Henri Landier's painting does not follow art fashions and alienations... he is the servant of his hands' talent... he is an engraver, he is a painter...

1993-Simone Bonnardin, art critic (Retrospective "40 years of painting") : ...very few are the artists, while showing 40 years of pictural creation, who can say: there, is all my life... his whole work is strongly built, thought and shaped according to his feeling of beauty, thruth, and reality...

1992-Roger Bouillot, art critic ("Tuscany") : ...among the most prominent pictures of a very dense exhibition, aquarelles have to be noticed... with a felicitous style of expression that makes think of great Segonzac...

1988-Guy Vignoht, art historian ("Venice") : ...Venice belongs no more to Venice but to Landier's drawings, red chalks, etchings...

1988-Jean Gordin, art critic ("Venice") : ...come nearer to the aquarelles. Each of them is a real musical moment...

1975/81Philippe Montoriol, journalist ("Provence/Blavet river" ) : ...Never Provence has undoubtedly received such a look... his painting is fascinating, extolling...

1974-Noël Franck, art critic : ...he is an outstanding engraver, one of the best at the present time. His graver draws as sharp as the best pencil...

1970-Michel Daubert, journalist : ...a song well done and showing an excellent know-how is said "square". Landier' s art is the same : "square". Landier himself is a square, frank, solid and strong personage...

1964-Jean-Pierre Chabrol, novelist (Illustration of "Les Chansons de la Vieille Lanterne" by P.MacOrlan) :
...the engravings have the beauty of the shrill voices of the mariners of old, singing sea shanties in a minor key on the forecastle, as they were rounding Cape Horn...

1960-André Hardellet, poet : ...Henri Landier's work offers a remarkable example of what an image can brings us. An image located half-way between the less arguable reality, and this imaginery space that each of us brings in oneself...

1960-Pierre MacOrlan, writer, from the "Académie Goncourt" : ...Henri Landier's work is an incomparable series of darkness confidences, the double darkness of moon and sun.
Henri Landier is probably the youngest of my friends; but he and I know the secrets of darkness...