"I refuse to confide and don't like it……" — Balthus
"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art."
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12 Quotes by Balthus
Balthus has 12 quotes on this site.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has…
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism,…
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I…
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave…
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I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more…
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let…
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness,…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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