• Gold medal at the 'Salon des Artistes Francais' in Paris, 1979. To be noted is that this was the salon which refused the Impressionist movement in the latter part of the 19th century.
• Honored prize at the 'Salon de La Marine' in Paris, where he was invited by the Minister of Defense to spend two weeks painting on board a vessel of the French Marines.
• International Albrecht Durer Prize.
  First Prize of the Leonard de Vinci Academie of Art.
• Paul Liot Prize; Best landscape at the Salon des Artistes Francais.
• First Prize and Gold Medal of the city of Nice.
• First Prize and Gold Medal of the city of Le Chesnay, outside of Paris where Bittar makes his home.

The life of Pierre Bittar is based on a conscious choice of freedom. He lives in accord with his beliefs and feelings, in harmony with his personal taste. He decided to live as an artist, refusing both servitude and surrender. This highly sensitive artist, passionately attached to animate and inanimate life, is devoted to the expression of the eternal poetry of nature. He transposes in a simple, sober manner the infinite faces of nature, guided by a fine sense of observation, whose expression is not marred by sentimentality nor deformed by exaggeration. A Pierre Bittar painting is a door opening into marvels of nature. It is a stroll down a garden path in dappled light, plunging into the rich green extravagance of foliage. It is the whisper of the wind in the trees, the soft murmur of snow falling. Bittar's shows compose an enchanting invitation to contemplate Heaven and earth, trees and seasons. This intensely poetic content is sustained by a perfect technical mastery, a highly developed sense of proportions and graphic finesse.

Neither purist or surrealist, the artistic temperment of Pierre Bittar is proudly indifferent to changing fashion and independent of schools and tendencies. Installing his easel solidly in the heart of his subject, he sketches, establishes the values and the scope of his painting, which is executed with a delicate power that inspires us to share his emotions. Remarkable for his mastery of color and distinguished by this combination of vigor and sensitivity, Bittar is thoroughly devoted to his art; painting according to his feelings and a personal sense of truth, he expresses his love for the beautiful, inspired by a depth of accumulated perceptions and emotional experience. Gifted with technical skill brought to a maturity and inspired by a sensitivity that has not been dulled by formal instruction. Pierre Bittar invites us to travel with him across time and space towards his marvelous inner world, bearing a message of love and beauty.

Can we doubt that this expression of faith lifts Pierre Bittar up to the ranks of authentic poets and communicates the vitality of his convictions?"

Claude Dorval • Le Pont des Arts • 1982